Gone to Carolina – Day 2 DC to the Meadows of Dan – Behold, Foamhenge

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Day 2 Washington DC to Meadows of Dan, 5 hours – 240 miles – 2 States DC, VA We hit the road grabbed breakfast on the way. Today we were heading to the Blue Ridge Parkway, a beautiful road through the hills and the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. It never really dawned […]

Gone to Carolina – Day 1 NYC to DC – The day a turkey exploded

Tuesday 22nd April 2014 Day 1 New York, NY to Washington DC 5 hours – 240 miles – 4 States NY+NJ+PA+MD Today was a long day. after getting up at the crack of dawn I boarded a plane at Heathrow to take me to New York City. However, I was not to spend much time […]

Green Frog Village – Bells, TN

I stumbled upon this charming historical village after I went to stay in cabin in rural Tennessee. When I booked to stay in John and Nancy’s cabin I had no idea that it would be part of an historical village which had been brought together from all over the South. Some of the buildings have […]

Neon Museum – Las Vegas, NV

So you have lost all your money and pawned your watch playing blackjack on the strip, you may even have been married to a random stranger by a guy dressed up as Elvis but when the dust settles, Las Vegas has quite a bit more to offer than than tigers in penthouse suites and glitzy […]

Pipeworks Tasting, Downers Grove, IL

I recently had the pleasure of observing and assisting my compadre, Bobby Minelli spread the Pipeworks Brewing love at a Binny’s in Downers Grove. We were inundated with people, some of them had driven nearly 2 hours to be there. Every last drop of the beer we took got consumed and dozens of bottles were […]

Fat Tuesday Hootenanny

What do you do on Fat Tuesday if you have a bunch of talented friends that like food as much as they like music. Well you do what my friend Christine did and throw a kick ass dinner an jam night. I stepped off a plane from Nashville and went straight to Christine’s apartment from […]

Go West (and South) days 4 and 5

Thurs 7th & Fri 8th Feb 2013 Day 4 Flagstaff, AZ to Las Vegas, BV 21 hours – 350 miles – 2 States AZ+NV Day 5 – Las Vegas. NV to Los Angeles, CA 6 hours – 300 miles – 2 States NV+CA Yesterday was a vey long day. We managed to see the sunrise […]

Go West (and South) Day 3

Wed 6TH Feb 2013 Day 3 Tucumcari, NM to Flagstaff, AZ 11 hours – 740 Miles – 2 States NM+AZ The beautiful little bunkhouse that we stayed in last night fast east out across the New Mexican plains towards the rising sun and we wanted to make the most of it. We woke up at 5.30 […]

Go West (and South) Day 2

Tues 5TH Feb 2013 Day 2 Springfield, MO to Tucumcari, NM 12 hours – 700 Miles – 4 States MO+OK+TX+NM Day 2 was an early start. We had a long way to cover and didn’t want to be driving in the dark in the middle of nowhere at our destintation, New Mexico. The alarm went […]

Go West (and South) Day 1

A friend in need is a friend indeed…and if you get a great road trip out of it as well, that is a bonus. My friend Kristen Studard (K-Stud to her friends and anyone else she can persuade to call her that) told me some months ago that she was going to pack up […]