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John Harris has absconded from Australia for five weeks with his wife Sandy and eight-year-old daughter Eden. While the true purpose of their trip to North America is to spend Christmas with Canadian friends in the snowy suburban streets of Ottawa, they have extended the front end of the trip and the back end of the trip with so many add-ons that the Norwood City Council is considering sending in the building inspectors. This itinerary is enough to make grown travel agents shudder: Disneyland, Hollywood, the Big Easy, the Bad DC, the Big Apple, the Big Hole in the Ground, Lost Wage and that Pacific island where you get leied on arrival. Will it stand the strain? Will it collapse? Dear reader, I know not, so read on to discover how it all turns out.

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Two months before the US Presidential election, John Harris and Robbie Brechin are hiring a ragtop with boom boom sound system to take a 1000-mile road trip through the heartland of the former Confederacy, starting in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 20 and hopefully arriving in Dallas, Texas, two weeks later. Along the route, they are plan to listen to some great music from Nashiville and New Orleans, ask a lot of folk how they feel about the world, the war and the prospect of the Union's first black president. John and Robbie are also looking for Australians along the way - running bars, restaurants, nightclubs and interesting small businesses - to get an outsider's inside view of the US election. If you know of any great people or places to visit, please email details to John at jharris@impress.com.au .We'll keep you posted on our progress. 

 

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Home at last - but our plane was late, so Eden got to see the Opera House

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Shopping, sunshine and smiles -aloha Hawaii, but the Pipeline was flatter than John's singingsurf coast, hawaii, january 5, 2008 1.jpg

 

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LA International Airport - did I forget to brush my teeth?

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