Category: Forty-Two Places Guidebook
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My Improbability Drive
Trust introduces both coincidence and improbability alongside talent and hard work in the equation of success.
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Forty-Two Beta Readers
Forty-Two Places is about engendering appreciation for the author, the works, and the places, within the heart and soul of the fan. Not all fans may be up for this level of devotion. However, those that are, are REALLY going to enjoy this ride.
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Douglas Adams Tour: The Travel Epiphany
I’m ready for my travel epiphany, Mr. Adams.
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Side Quests: St Michael’s Mount
The Pilgrim’s Steps were an opportunity to reflect that…well, I was on a pilgrimage. Just of my own making. I wasn’t paying my respects to St. Michael, but I still enjoyed the mystique of the mount, considered holy for hundreds of years.
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November 4 & 6 at 7:30 PM: Yvette in Personal Stories – Return to Live!
On November 4th and 6th I will be sharing personal stories on stage live at the Center Stage Theater. At a 7:30 PM show on Thursday and Saturday nights, I’ll be telling a tale about ‘Kate’s Corner of the Park,’ just one of the many moments that turned me into a Douglas Adams literary tourism…
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Douglas Adams Travel: Pretty, Pretty Penzance
Lurching up the incline, passing shop after shop not yet open for the day, it was easy to imagine how, over centuries, the steep grades gradually got topped off with buildings. Someone willing to hike wanted a good view. Soon, there were neighbors. Then alarmingly, the whole thing was a village dangerously perched in a…
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Attacked by The Lizard
I wanted a picture, I wanted to get up close so I could ask my guide all about them…and the one step off the track, searching for an image, was a step in a very wrong direction.
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SLATFATF Always Results in Geography Questions
I wish after he’d knocked Arthur Dent’s House down, Douglas Adams had stopped alluding to its whereabouts. After years and years of re-reads, I keep telling myself to give up, but the likely location for Arthur Dent’s House still tugs at me. What we know: 1) House, country lane, outside a village with a Horse…
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Get Lost, Dirk.
I was not in a foreign country, on a once-in-a-lifetime-quest, to give in to doing things I was regularly tempted to do back home on any given Thursday. I would do only wildly foreign and exciting things. Like getting myself lost.
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Guest Spot on Electric Monks Podcast
Ed and Nemo are joined by special guest Yvette Keller to discuss the new Dirk Gently short film, Socially Distanced Dirk, as well as the accompanying 2021 Douglas Adams memorial lectures by Arvind Ethan David and Baroness Susan Greenfield. We also talk about a new Kickstarter book project which will provide unearthed archived material from…