Seriously, when did "it's only a three hour drive" enter my vocabulary? Saturday morning I hopped into my car and took off to Bettendorf, Iowa. It's about a three hour drive from Chicago to the Quad cities but considering I drove over 3,000 miles on my...
In March of 2004 I went to Las Vegas for the first time. We stayed in a giant cartoon castle. I didn't gamble much because I don't like to gamble. But I love Las Vegas. We went to a Hard Rock and saw penguins and...
I'm in the process of scanning and uploading all of my old my pre-blog, pre-digital photos. Every Sunday I will revisit an old un-blogged gallery. Los Angeles Old, unedited, entries from my old LiveJournal. December 7, 2005, 9:34 a.m. eep!! Tonight I am leaving for sunny california (its...
Sunday we woke up early after the bluegrass festival and I made the executive decision to cut my trip a day short. I allotted two days to get back but looking over my map I kept thinking I'd probably only end up a few hours...
Saturday was RedBone Willy's Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Festival in Lawndale, North Carolina! Sadie and I left her place early for the drive to the festival. And on our way we stopped for some breakfast to give me my first taste of Bojangles (not to...
Sadie had to work this morning but when she was done she raced back home to start our day's adventure! She got a nice slice of a day in the life of Silly America, and I got a nice slice of NC BBQ (quite literally!) Out...
Thursday. After a bagel with Will. After a quick stop at the rest area because Flopsy needed a bathroom break. After a detour to see a big pencil. I left Virginia and rolled my way into North Carolina. I headed out to Mt. Airy, North Carolina: AKA Mayberry. A town...
It's weird how unweird things are sometimes. Like how you can spend a night hanging out with someone you met in a bar in a foreign country two years ago and hadn't seen since and how it's weird but not really that weird at the...
Sometimes a trip seems a day or two too long. It can happen when you need to get from point A to point B to point C and point B is only in town on a Wednesday and point C is going on on a...
I made the decision, this morning, on the second day of my Virginia road trip, to make a b-line for Alexandria. I had a few stops at roadside attractions scheduled but nothing really stood out and I figured I'd rather make it to Virginia early....