Hello forumites.
I am giving very serious thought to an idea that I have been having for about four years now: to travel across the breadth of the North American continent. The catch is pretty magnificent: I have enough money only to pay for my passport's renewal, and a flight to New York, with a bare modicum of disposable income to spare. A thought that has crossed my mind with equal repetition is that it might actually be possible, given the charity of amenable, affable strangers, to dot-to-dot across the USA's brobdingnagian landscape via the hospitality of this forum's American populace. Equally frequently over the past four years, I have considered the idea that I'd perhaps like to write a proper story, a sort of series of picture postcards constructed from written portraits of every type of person willing to put up with a clean, tidy, friendly Brit for two days at the most at a time. I realise entirely how much I am asking from people whose lives have their own gravity, weight and circumference. I do! I really, very much do. If you think my ambition wild and uncouth, tell me, and it will remain exactly that - an unformed ambition only.
If, though, you think that putting up a chatty little limey for a couple of nights is something entirely achievable (and more - something that you'd actually enjoy!) then please, please give me an indication. I await your response excitedly, and fully prepared for any eventuality! Thank you for your various opinions and patiences.
- Rodrick
