http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/ Africa 2004, Americas 2008 en-us 2.6.10 Vancouver, Canada . . Oof! I forgot to mention that Yosemite National Park is AWE-OID. For future reference, some of it remains closed (i.e. snowbound) until sometime in May, but if you have to pawn your teeth to see... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004564.php 24.5.10 Seattle, WA. . . What in tarnation...? . Her Maj and I roll into Frazier-town at 5pm on Sunday. She's as frantically enthusiastic about everything as the day she was born; I've got damp knickers, and not in a... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004563.php 4.5.10 San Francisco, CA . Yosemite, one last time. Amazoid. . The Most Ridiculous Rumour Involving Mis-Casting I've Ever Heard, #1: Someone on the internet says that, before Matt Smith was cast as The Doctor, one of the contenders was... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004518.php 30.4.10 Mariposa, CA . . I'm sitting at the bar in the 49er Club, owned and run by the enigmatic, shades-indoors-in-a-good-way (i.e. "I did stupendous amounts of acid 40 years ago and I actually HAVE to wear them") Randy, when... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004516.php 24.4.10 Monterey, CA . . At last! Microwave Cheese-On-Toast. *literally dies* . Before we go any further, I'd like you to look at this photograph of a food product I saw in a supermarket in Arizona, and reflect upon the... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004515.php San Simeon, CA. 23.4.10 . "Oooh! You don't want to leave today dearie! Terribly high winds on the way!" warns the landlady as I pack up in Flagstaff. "Pshaw!" I think. "I've ridden through Patagonia don'cha know. No man's put... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004482.php 21/3/10 Moab, Utah . The northern end of New Mexico is pretty. Colorado is stunning. Utah is something else entirely. It's a lesson in not thinking "the last place was amazing - next one's boundabe crap". . . Southern Colorado... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004433.php 16.3.10 Farmington, New Mexico . . The beer in the Three Rivers brew-pub in Farmington is astonishing, and consequently I find myself astonished up to the eyeballs. The music, however, is weird; either lame and sometimes explicitly racist 90's country,... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004432.php 8.3.10 Santa Fe, New Mexico - "Fat Tire" is, I hope you'll agree, a fabulous name for a foamy amber whistle-wetter. I suppose it's called that because it makes you a) fat and b) tired. Well done, anyway, to Santa... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004426.php 5.2.10 Soto La Marina, Mexico . Apart from the towel, with which a 14th century Dutch farmhand would have been embarrassed to be caught wiping off a sow's teats, Hotel Meda in Panuoco isn't too bad. OK - it stinks,... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004425.php 18.1.10 Mexico City - Excellent things about Mexico City: 1. 7-Eleven "Big Lunch" sandwiches. While "Small Lunch" would, in all fairness, sum up the defining attributes of these superbly fresh brown-bread starvation-attenuators more accurately, they are easily the least disappointing... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004421.php 6 Jan 2010 Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico - - However sated you are with Mexican crooners, can I suggest you don't snap, get up from your table, find the one Doors CD among the 2000 Los Amigos Borrachos recordings, and put... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004420.php 23.12.09 San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico I line up the camera to get a shot of the "Beer & Tacos" sign just as Victor Bloody Meldrew lurches out of the doorway. He's a cantankerous American nut-job, 65-ish and bald... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004307.php 28.11.09 Cancun, Mexico Trade: di-methyl-hydroxy-loperamide. Street: Imodium. These pills are valued at two quid, and amazingly - against all intestinal logic - they work even if you've "got one in the chamber", acting like a rectal Super Slurper and turning... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004306.php 25.11.09 Escarcega, Mexico I have to be in Cancun on Sunday to meet Naz, last seen in Buenos Aires. It would've been quicker to go through Belize, but sod that; it's $200 to get a bike in and the cop... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/fitzpatrick/004305.php