A Journey to CP Lee and the Dylanologists

Peter took his first trip to the U.K. in May 1999. Along the way he stayed with some longtime Dylanologists, CP Lee, Alan Fraser, Matthew Zuckerman and Craig Jamieson.

Like The Night with CP Lee

It is shortly before 11, Friday Morning and I am in CP’s office at the University of Salford.  The flight over took 7 hours.  Very strange seeing a sunset and sunrise in that time.  777 very claustrophobic, but the dinner was good and they had a lot of cool movies to watch.  The best thing was one of the channels showed where the plane was.  It flew up the East Coast to Nova Scotia and turned right and straight on over Ireland (which I couldn’t see at all) into London. But then when the plane landed, the doors to the thing that takes you from the plane to the airport wouldn’t open and we sat on the damn plane for 15 or 20 minutes before they got it to work.  Finally we got off the damn thing, and I had 45 minutes or less to make my next plane.

First I had to walk for what seemed like miles following these connection signs to end up at the bottom a stairway in line behind a locked door waiting for a bus to the next terminal.  No one says or explains anything.  …