DATELINE: Chicago, Illinois
After three relaxing days exploring, imbibing and dreaming at waterfalls in Portland, we parted ways with Rachael, our native guide and superstar driver, to catch the ‘Empire Builder’ train back to Chicago. It’s been emotional. And tiring. Mostly tiring. 50 hours in transit does funny things to your brain.
Our cab to Portland’s train [...]

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DATELINE: Greenville, South Carolina

INT. Early evening on the day of the South Carolina Republican Primary. A virtually empty bar on Greenville’s wealthy Main Street.
Tom, an indie-looking guy with a Rider of Rohan hood and an English accent, gestures to a TV in the corner of the bar.
Tom: “Excuse me. Are you going to be screening [...]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
“Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about” (Amy Archer, The Hudsucker Proxy)
Here’s the latest polling for Iowa.
But polling schmolling. Marlene the clinical scientist from the Hillary Clinton rally last night seemed to be for Clinton – she clapped along in all the right places, wore the [...]

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Is there really that much difference between the Megacity that is London, England, and rural Iowa? Of course there is. It’s a stupid question. But it’s one I’ve been pondering nonetheless with little more than two weeks until we fly out to the States. The key difference at this stage, as far as I can [...]

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