Day 5 – Cottonwood to Winslow
Day 6 >>>>
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[richard uridge]
Poetry, bikes, dementia...
[richard uridge]
Poetry, bikes, dementia...
Rich Uridge
Training company boss by day. Poet and a whole heap of other things by night. Plus the son of a mother who was killed in a care home while living with dementia.
Day 4 – Wickenburg to Cottonwood
Day 5 >>>>
Day 3 – Blythe CA to Wickenburg AZ
Day 4 >>>>
Day 2 – Palm Springs to Blythe
Day 3 >>>>
Day 1 – Costa Mesa to Palm Springs
Day 2 >>>>>
Goofy
It’s 10.30 at night here in California and in precisely six and a half hours our alarm will go off on a routine that will continue for the next 28 days. Up at 5am. Breakfast at 5.30am. On the road…
Hot cross bums
Drive through banks, drive through chemists, drive through launderettes, drive through restaurants, drive through funeral parlours… Okay I made the last one up. But all the same nobody seems to walk anywhere much in this part of America so the…
Raw like sushi
Humans, like hire cars, need refuelling. Although there the similarity ends. Our Chevy Tahoe with its huge gas tank can go days between refills. We can manage only a few hours between meals. And while eating fast food and filling…
LA is a great big freeway
Burt Bacharach and Hal David were right. LA is a great big freeway. But as such it isn’t crash hot for cycling (more hot crash) so we hire a Chevy Tahoe for the 40 mile journey from LAX to the…
Stars
While you were sleeping The Plough cut a furrow across the field of night. Owls hooted and screeched in it’s wake Feasting on the shiny seeds of light that Orion cast from the pouch hitched to his rhinestone belt.