by PeterMurtagh-user | May 15, 2023 | Blog
May 8th 2023, Salinas. Travelling between Los Angeles and San Francisco, it’s impossible — for me at any rate — to escape the literary history of the area. Salinas, Monterey and the fertile flatlands between the mountains all provide the settings for...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 14, 2023 | Blog
May 14th 2023, San Francisco. Tenderloin is a district in downtown San Francisco where many of the city’s homeless live in tents on the pavements. Heather Leonard (37) arrived there a while back and tells her story in the urgent and often disconnected way that...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 12, 2023 | Blog
May 5th 2023, Hollywood. There’s all sorts of stuff rattling around my head as I turn off Route 1 heading north along the California coast and start cruising the Santa Monica Boulevard. Chiefly Ry Cooder and his cool but slightly edgy urban grime song Down in...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 8, 2023 | Blog
After Tucson, I rode straight west towards San Diego, California, spending one night camping in Yuma which is on the border with Arizona. That evening, something happened that I believe is a regular occurrence there — a mighty sandstorm blew up from further...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 4, 2023 | Blog
April 30th 2023, Tucson, Arizona. There’s a mountain that rises above Tucson, a little to the north and east of the Arizona city. It is called Mount Lemmon and, amazing to think of it as you swelter and bake in the heat of the city (it was 97 Fahrenheit, that is...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 30, 2023 | Blog
April 30th 2023 in Tucson, Arizona. Between 80 and 100 gun dealers, gun makers, and sellers of anything and everything associated with firearms, old and new, laid out their wares inside Tucson’s Expo Centre at the weekend for the Arizona city’s annual Expo...
