First stop, Epping

Either you get this, or you don’t. (I think it’s cool!) :

I’m Going Underground - USA Style (Episode 1)

On May 2nd 2006, I gave up everything I had in England and moved 4,000 miles west to the town of Charleston, South Carolina - a state which just a few months before I admit I’d heard of but didn’t really know whereabouts in America it was.

And now it’s three years later…

So … the plan is to leave Charleston on June 15th 2009 and head up to the state of Maine.  There is a tiny town there called Epping, which matches up with the tube station in London with the same name.  I quite like the fact that Epping, Maine is located in the top right of the USA and that Epping, London is located in the top right of the tube map.  A perfect way to start.

I’ve then found the name of a place in all of the mainland/contiguous 48 states of USA that shares a name with a place on the tube map (using the fantastic placenames.com) - and I’ll be driving to all of them to see what’s there.  I’ll also obviously take in some of the more traditional ‘things to see’ in the USA on my way round, as well as some offbeat quirky things too...

You can follow along here.  (So far, he’s been towed in Boston (figures!), and hasn’t even gotten started.)  There’s also a Facebook group, and a Twitter channel.  (And a Cafe Press shop.)

Via Diamond Geezer, in a nice post on things to see and do in Epping, U.K.

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