"Before here? Campus, UC Irvine campus. Two classes this morning, lectures, I love lectures—giving, attending... Oh..." Accent—so she didn't mean where was he before the coffee shop.
"I suppose originally the answer would be the East Midlands, Derby to be precise. But loads of places since then. Cambridge, Paris for a bit, Istanbul for a stretch, here and there for awhile and then some time in Tokyo—which is mad in every wonderful sense of the word—and most recently, Quintana Roo, Mexico, at the ruins of Cobá, an ancient Mayan city. I guess I'm somewhat nomadic by nature." He pondered, as though thinking about his tendency to roam for the very first time.