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Previous | Contents | Next March 2001 This was Queensberry’s first WPPI trade show in Las Vegas. ~ Ian Well, the Trade Show is over and we’re back in the LAX Departure Lounge. It feels good to relax. The show was a non-stop assault. We’d been pretty busy even before we left home, what with house alterations and preparations…
Previous | Contents | As we drove east across northern New York State the trees were in full leaf. Leaving Quebec, further north, everything had just been greening up, as the buds formed and opened. It would have been nice to go back for another look at Edmonton later in the Spring. We roared east along the…
Previous | Contents | NextI wrote my last 2000 despatches back in sunny Los Angeles. We’d spent the last four weeks driving through Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New England. Having flown back from Toronto we were lying low for a few hours before catching the flight back home. ~ Ian We’ve driven about 9,000 kms, and the…
I’ve posted what I wrote about our 2000 road trip. Heather liked it, and it reminds me what a good time we had. And it was the start of our international business! I’ll deal with the business side of things later. Meanwhile, pretty much all I’ve done is add a bit more family stuff to…
Contents It was our first visit to the States barring a few days in the North East in 1980. NEXT
Previous | Contents | Next Before Canada, a little segue into food. It’s fair to say that sometimes we don’t so much sight-see when we travel as progress from restaurant to restaurant. This trip was no different. I’d always wanted to drive across America — and yes, I know that every generation likes to make its own…
Previous | Contents | Next Those of you with a literary bent will not be surprised to hear that I was reading Tom Wolfe at the time. Others will notice that it’s pre-iPhone and pre-mobile internet, and that take-out coffee hadn’t arrived in New Zealand yet. ~ IanWell, gosh — we’ve been here three weeks and never…
Previous | Contents | Next I first wrote home a few days into the trip. When I re-read it now I recall how struck we were by South California — it was just like we’d seen on TV. What strikes me now is how much things have changed in the past 25 years. I wonder if the sunny South…