October 4th, 2001London, Ontario Hey y’all I am back safe and sound in Ontario after a somewhat insane adventure. I survived a couple tornadoes, the worst bad ass rainstorm I ever drove through, a bad bout of nasty poisonous insect bites and/or systemic poison ivy, my new van deciding to blow up in the middle of the mountainous nowheres and…   see more…

Self portrait at Manassas National Battlefield, VA.More photos here!  September 24th, 2001Sperryville, Virginia  I’m in crazy beautiful Virginia with the walnuts and the wild grapes and the locust trees. I can go outside and walk five feet and stick my head in the beautiful river that runs down from the Blue Ridge mountains. But you gotta be careful cause there’s…   see more…

Goodbye Esmeralda! August 21, 2001London, Ontario  After seven and a half years of grand adventures (and nearly 300,000 km…) I said goodbye to Esmeralda the van today. Thanks Ezzie. You were such a good horse. She really wanted to be driven off the side of the Grand Canyon but I figure they’d probably catch me for that and wouldn’t be…   see more…

August 7th, 2001London, Ontario  HOLY HOT DAMN. it was a lovely 106 degrees on Esmeralda the van’s thermometer the whole way home from Rhode Island. Poor Ezzie’s air-conditioning busted ’cause she just couldn’t take it anymore. It wouldn’t have been so bad but for the New York City bad-ass traffic jams and having to leave my poor guitar in the…   see more…

July 20th, 2001 Sperryville, Virginia I am hiding away in the Blue Ridge Mountains, somewhere between the crystal fairyland caverns and the civil war battlefields. and as they say in Virginia “I reckon it be hotta than a fire storm in hell.” And ain’t it the truth! Me and my dear friend Jenny have been sitting on her porch watching…   see more…

July 2nd, 2001London, Ontario  Hey y’all. Like the new website?? It’s been quite the summer so far! I have moved away from my home on Vancouver Island and I am heading for the oceans of the east… Me and Esmeralda the van drove across Canada and next we are heading south to the Shenandoah Valley. I am taking some time…   see more…