NY blog - work in progress

Hello, blogging from Richard's in Chatham, NY county... snow on the ground, blue skies, good people - a very nice place to be. Just snatching some blog time as the main diary I was intending to blog daily (or so) is stuck in cyber prison on my ipaq.. can't get an ISP carrier in the States. I fiddled about and got the phone band changed and the provider so I can use the phone, but the web access is a no-no. oh well.. so - watch this space (as the slightly irritating tour guide on the round-Manhattan-boat tour kept saying - and I'll post it all in a big slab of U.S road trip dudeness.