The Trip: Part Four, DC and NY

( Two rather different experiences )

So, yes, lessons learned... pack a lunch if you're going to a foreign city where you don't know anyone, try and go broke in the city with lots of free museums and a British embassy rather than lots of $20-at-the-door museums, expect hotel quality to vary not by price but by location as I was in a fantastic hotel then an okay hotel and then a hole for about $150 a night each, have phone numbers handy in case of emergency, buy a robust suitcase rather than a cheap one, spare a day or two before a major event in a new timezone for jetlag and/or food poisoning, and don't trust credit cards at all.

Simon Pegg, very nice.

Amiable and chatty after an hour and a quarter of signing his book, with about two hundred people behind me.

"Is there someone here who's getting a book for them?" he asked a few signings ahead of me.

"Craig?"
"Yes, actually."
"Oh, thank you!"(signing) "Not a lot of Craigs here tonight, more Stuarts."
"Any Andys?"
"A few Andys, yeah."
"Oh, and I thought you'd like to know you've arrived. I just saw a film called The Book Of Zombie and there's a plot point about Pegg Cola."
(Face lighting up) "Pegg What?!"
"Pegg Cola. Figured you'd want to know."
(grinning) "I love the zombie community. There you go, cheers!"

So, who's going to see Burke And Hare next week?