It wasn’t until 1691 that Spanish explorers first met the Payaya Indians of the San Antonio River Valley. It was June 13, the feast day of Saint Anthony,…
Day 0 trip/ Texas/ Travel/ United States
Day 394 – Austin, Texas – In search of TPS reports and high weirdness
Austin is a city I’ve always wanted to visit. I kind of thought I might have waited too long and all the tech hipsters might have drove the…
Our next stop was Austin, Texas, a 7.5 hour drive from Hot Springs, so we decided to break the drive up into two days and head through Shreveport,…
For more than 8000 years, native people had been visiting the area for the healing powers of the springs located in present day Hot Springs, Arkansas. Many tribes…
“I’m going to Graceland For reasons I cannot explain There’s some part of me wants to see Graceland” – Paul Simon Graceland After Elvis Presley’s first house purchased…
Day 0 trip/ Kentucky/ Maryland/ New Jersey/ New York/ Pennsylvania/ Travel/ United States/ West Virginia
Day 374 – Winter is coming. Out of time for the east coast.
My main goal for the summer was to visit my daughter in New Jersey and see her new apartment, visit my family in West Virginia, and see the…
In the course of a week we drove through all five great lakes and took a few side trips along the way. We killed a couple of weeks…
Day 0 trip/ Personal thoughts and ideas/ Travel
Day 365 – I’ve been traveling for an entire year today.
It’s been a year today that I sold all of my belongings and set out on an open-ended trip around the world. As expected, a couple of things…
Day 0 trip/ Michigan/ Travel/ United States
Day 346 – Driving Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the fall
One of my main goals driving cross country is to visit my daughter and see her new apartment in Jersey City. And after an unexpected month in Wisconsin,…
We hadn’t planned to stay long in Madison, just a stop to mount the new tires and we’d be off to Chicago. I’d seen it pop up in…