The Memory Man: The Final Chapter

The witching moment is due as the end of my escapades in Michigan reach their conclusion, the moment I've been running from for over half a decade but no more. I can't keep running anymore the end is nigh and finality has drawn upon me.... While we passed the youths Andrea nipped into the Royal …

The Memory Man #9

Now I combining the rest of Thursday with the events of Friday as I don't recall a huge amount of details and I don't think a huge amount happened in the evening anyway. Thursday EveningNow this was the first time or possibly the second time that Andrea and Casey had visited their father for Thanksgiving, …

The Memory Man #8

Thanksgiving day I woke around 8 o'clock and did my usual daily ritual and popped off to the McDonald's for a large morning coffee and waited for Andrea to turn up, she said she'd be early today as she didn't want to miss the Thanksgiving day parade. Now I mistakenly believed that this meant we …

The Memory Man #7

We returned to Andrea's place so Andrea could get changed for the evening out I ended up chatting to Casey about some of his artwork and if he was going to go professional or if he had sold some, I believe he had sold a few to a bar somewhere and I went through some …

The Memory Man #6

Now looking to the events of the next few days in Michigan I had a feeling I may of got my days a bit mixed up but I'm not 100% sure, it essentially regards her brother Casey. I initially recall we picked him up on the Wednesday afternoon as we were going on to Andrea's …

The Memory Man #5

Okay I left you with a very sketchy detail of my first day in Michigan with the lovely Andrea. This was partially due to my lack of memory of the initial day but looking back on the entry I can recall a bit more, so rather than edit the previous entry I'll back track slightly. …

The Memory Man #4

The flight to Michigan was a smooth flight and transfers were easy. Once I came through to the lounge I waited as the various people on the flight depart, I won't deny I was ever so slightly concerned I'd been duped but after about 30 mins I saw Andrea and her mother arrive. My god, …

The Memory Man #3

From now on, the title to this account is going to highly apt as it is written purely from memory and notes I made on various photographs at the time, so if this seems a little disjointed I do apologize. This covers the two days I spent in Chicago which I do believe may have …

The Memory Man #2

Well here we are the second part of the story, not much background need here, once I move on to Michigan more background will be needed The chappy I met at the bar at Buddy Guys. Now since I wasn't quite sure of the dress code for Buddy Guy's I did make a little effort …

The Memory Man

"Gather round, it's story time. Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we'll begin..."- Watch with Mother BBC 1950's children's show.After a long time thinking about it, I thought I'd finally re-visit my original visit to Illinois and Michigan, despite the downbeat ending. So I'll put a little background detail here, a long time ago back …