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The last post

The end is in sight. Just got to drive to the airport and I'm home free. That will, of course, take three days out here, as the van limps over the finish line and I await the tears, tantrums and catastrophic repair bill from the rental company. In the meantime, it's farewell...

'Muscle Car Drag Racing - Today'

And if there's a man alive who can see that sign on the highway and not turn off, well, he needs a red blood-cell count sharpish...

Bar brawling

Harlowton, Montana - Well, I'm carrying quite a hangover, so this post might be a touch more abrasive than normal - but then, as every baseball fan knows, when October approaches, it's time to come out swinging....

A moving target

Billings, Montana - Exciting times Stateside, as a Venezuelan book critic takes the world by storm, and politics gets super-nasty as the guard changes. Oh, and I've found the best pub sign in history, to your left...

Sundance Country

Billings, Montana: I know what we'll do, we'll jump! I'm not going to jump. Why not? I can't swim! You can't swim? Jesus Christ, man, the fall will probably kill ya....

Breaking news - Evil Knievel not dead

Cody, Wyoming - I mean, he's not in the best of shape, ravaged by old age and in no mood to leap 13 double-decker buses as in days of old, but he's still with us. Who knew?

It's not Clapham..

West Yellowstone, Montana - "Honey, now that the kids are getting a bit more grown up, maybe we should move somewhere with a bit more space..."

Friday Night Lights

Darby, Montana - Have you seen that movie? It's about the mania for high school football in rural America - thousands of fans, marching bands, leagues of cheerleaders, TV coverage, huge hoopla - well, this is backwoods Montana, and it's nothing like that...

A quick shot...

Pinesdale, Montana - I, mean, look at this photo! FIVE CARS in the drive-way! What family needs five cars, for Chrissakes? It's so bad for the environ...Oh, I'm sorry, my mistake, I didn't realise you were a polygamist. Y'all have a nice day, now. My regards to the wives....

A joke no-one gets

Missoula, Montana - I don't know if this Presidential photo op' made it across to the UK, but I have to share it, because no-one out here laughs when I wave the newspaper in their face and shout "WHAT A CHOPPER, EH!, WHAT AN ENORMOUS CHOPPER! Oh, never mind..."

Anyway, I'm in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, and I never want to leave...