Archive for the 'New York' Category



We Got The Jack

About an hour into New York, Jenkin sounded an ominous yawp as one of its back tires ceased to be. It didn’t burst so much as decay, flaking off and crumbling into dust like it was aging at terrible speed. With that auspicious event, our journey had truly begun. [2006 Edit: Yes, yes, thrilling, isn't [...]

We set off early on a Friday morning, Brown Jenkin (the car) stuffed to its gills with camping equipment, funky mix tapes, Derek’s guitar, Yes & Know trivia books, decomposing cheese curds that we would not discover and exorcise until Oklahoma, and homemade wine. It seemed fitting to enter the U.S. at Niagara Falls, a [...]