PABCAS, the blog of Paul Martin Campbell

Have found myself describing this quite a lot recently, so I figure I might aswell publish it and post a link to it for those two ask.

For the next 27 days I’ll be touring the US, starting in NY and finishing up in Palo Alto for http://www.paddysvalley.org … Here’s my itinerary — these are the places I’ll be, if you need to figure out what timezone I’m in, or indeed if there’s anyone reading who’s from there and fancies hanging out for coffee, beer and/or breeze-shooting.

November 12th – 16th I arrived in New York last night and I’m here until Friday. I’m staying in Manhattan and hanging out in Gramstand in the afternoons.

16th – 17th Flying to Durham in North Carolina to visit a friend who’s doing a masters in Duke University. Hopefully out Friday night and perhaps visit the campus on Saturday? Another big night and then on to…

17th – 19th ...Denver, Colorado to visit Scott and talk web hosting and tech.

20th – 23rd Traveling east to Moab to spend a couple days outdoorsy for Thanksgiving with Katy ... Very excited about this, as I’ll probably be completely offline ( phone and net ) for a few days.

24th Flying to LA to meet my dad at the airport and staying the night in Venice Beach.

25th -27th Driving north along Highway 1. Hoping to check out the Sideways trail in Santa Barbara wine country, get down with personal wellbeing at Esalen and taste the deep blue at Monterey Bay Aquarium

28th – 29th San Francisco. Hopefully get to pop in to Citizen Space for a return visit. Excited! Some fine dining is most definitely on the agenda. Will hook up with Simon too.

30th – December 2nd North and south of the bay. Two days wine tasting in Sonoma and Napa (advice welcome!) and drive down to Palo Alto on the Sunday to hook up with Paddy’s Valley in the Cardinal Hotel.

December 3rd Table for four booked at The French Laundry Myself, Simon, Eoghan and hopefully Dave Rice mmmmmmmmmmmm ( My suitcase is hilarious — two hoodies, two pairs of jeans, five t-shirts, the essentials and a dinner jacket, shirt tie, pants and a pair of fancy brown shoes — yeah! )

4th – 9th Paddy’s Valley — haven’t produced a schedule for this yet, but hope to meet up with Kyle Shank ... I’d also like to meet up with the lads from Auctomatic (I almost interviewed with Harjeet and Kulveer last year, but stayed an extra week here in NY and flew home direct, missing the opportunity to stop off in London for the interview. Ill-fate? I hope not. ) I think it’ll be a good trip.

That’s it, back home to Dublin for Christmas. Here’s hoping it’ll be a successful trip and I’ll come home full of enthusiasm and inspiration. The first 24 hours have been pretty energising already and that’s for sure — and I’ve not even met up with anyone yet.