Leaving on a jet plane, but not yet

I've been blog moving and generally packing because I'm going on my travels again. This time it is to Los Angeles and the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The plane leaves tomorrow, but we need an early start from Gatwick and so we are driving down today (that is, David is driving, I'm going to sit in the back and say "Are we there yet" at regular intervals).

Tip for long car journeys - Bill Bryson. Get a copy of the audio version of "Notes from a Small Island", read by the master - Kerry Shale. Very good to listen to and makes the journey shorter. If you have a journey with kids over about 11 in age or so get hold of some of the X-Files audio tapes which are also read by Mr. Shale. The one with Eugene Victor Tombs is brilliant!

Got to Gatwick without incident and clocked into a hotel so memorable that I've forgotten the name already. The fact that the hotel is hard to remember is a good thing, in that you do seem to recall the bad things about a place, but if everything just works and the service is good you file it under OK and forget.

Anyhoo, on to a Jumbo tomorrow and away to LA