DATELINE: Pismo Beach, California
Rolling into the pacific Pacific town of Pismo Beach (pop. 8,551) in early evening, we were beset by the usual travellers’ tiredness after the drive from Los Angeles – I was also recovering from Robert de Niro’s attempts to poison me, via some very dodgy veal and wild mushroom ravioli in his […]

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DATELINE: Fort Stockton, Texas
Some fun facts about Texas: it was a Republic between 1836 and 1845. It only joined the Union on the conditions that it could secede whenever it felt like it, and that it could divide itself into five smaller states whenever it felt like it, like some kind of constitutional Hydra. These […]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa

“This whole place goes a bit crazy around caucus time. I love it, because you get to see all these normally quiet, placid midwesterners get more and more heated as the evening goes on.”
2 hours and 51 minutes to go!!

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DATELINE: Chicago, Illinois
Allan Stevo is a dedicated man. A Chicagoan originally, he has returned from five years in Slovakia, specifically to campaign for a ’second tier’ candidate called Ron Paul. If you’ve spent much time on YouTube lately (on the political videos, rather than ‘two girls one cup’ clips), you might have seen the comments […]

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