Category: Forty-Two Places Tour
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Douglas Adams Tour: Coach Tours
On any quest, there’s no knowing who you’ll meet up with…Unless you take my Douglas Adams Tour. Because if it really is the people you meet that make a trip special, starting out with froody, fun, fantastic fans will make this trip one of the most special in your life.
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Douglas Adams Tour: The Nerd Big Three
OUTTAKES CONTINUED… This post is an outtake from my 2015 forty-two places Douglas Adams tour. I’m cutting a lot of 1st-person POV from the upcoming book, Forty-Two Places: A Douglas Adams Travel Guide. “Mark, Since this will be your first trip to England, is there anything you want to see?”“The Nerd Big Three: The Rosetta…
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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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The Many Anniversaries of May (Bad and Good)
May 11th is the 20th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s death. By a highly improbable coincidence, it is also the 6th annual deathday of my father, Robert (Bob) Keller.
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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…
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Yvette Keller for Towel Day Ambassador!
Check out the video I made to run for Towel Day Ambassador 2021.
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Someone of Consequence
The sheer number of expensive suits walking quickly, unabashedly talking into their wrists, motivated us to move along before they grabbed us and started bellowing, “Resistance is useless!” or something equally Vogonic.
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Spouses
I had my picture taken pointing at the airport sign, my face covered in an enormous grin that would only rarely leave my face for the next forty-one days.