Last week I stayed in a hotel in Fairfax,
It's an innocuous town, but wandering about the place I had a strange sense of deja-vu. It took me a little while to realize, but I had been there before, almost 20 years previously.
In 1990 I set off on a bicycle from Capitol Hill with a group of my fellow students, and just over six weeks later arrived at the Golden Gate Bridge, (unrecognisably fitter and more tanned than I will ever be again. I can't believe the photo's are really me!)
Once I realized where I was, I searched through the scanned photos on my laptop and found the picture attached to this post showing some of the team taking advantage of this hospitality, 19 years ago. I then spent most of my evening in
So far, this is the occasion on which I have most earnestly wished that all my photos are geotagged!

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