Destinations

I don’t have much to say about New Hampshire other than I went there. It’s not that the state was awful or anything, I just didn't do a...

I was having a lot of big feelings as I departed Ithaca , on my way to the only New England state I had never visited. The two weeks I’d...

Almost two hundred years before I entered Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this remote patch of wilderness helped prevent a war between two...

I am commonly asked what my favorite place so far has been, and the answer always shocks people. I fell in love with Sandusky, Ohio....

West Virginia has always conjured up images in my mind of the locals from Deliverance , hillbillies from the backwoods of Appalachia...

It’s a tale as old as time. Man goes to Indiana for a car race and a rave breaks out… My drive to Indiana, like the drive to Kentucky,...

I hadn’t been to Tennessee since my move out to LA in 1998. On that trip, I hit a chunk of metal in the road and blew my tire 40 minutes...

Kentucky is best known for two things - horse racing and bourbon - and I had plans for both. Equipped with my new hat and dress shirt I...

I almost moved to New Orleans when I was nineteen. I was working at The John Thomas Steakhouse (which was sadly claimed by COVID), and I...

The drive from Tulsa to Fayetteville was only two hours, so I got there on Saturday. I checked into my Airbnb early and had dinner at the...

Armadillo roadkill, an oil refinery, and a billboard for Naloxone were the first things to greet my eyes as I entered Oklahoma. This...

It should tell you everything you need to know about Kansas that their tourism industry is centered around an 85-year old film that...

Continuing my tour of national parks, I planned a roundabout route to Boulder so I could hit two out of the three in Colorado. BLACK...

If Nevada’s desert beauty dazzled me, Utah’s knocked me out. I didn't have a specific place in mind to stay in Utah, but I did know it...

Driving the full 550+ miles from Twin Falls to Death Valley in one shot would have been grueling, so I looked for a place to stop in the...

My third state up was Idaho. Why Idaho next? Rather than continue down the west coast, I wanted to save California for the end of the...

Dropping just one state south, Oregon was my next stop. I moved to Portland three years ago with my ex. It was, after a combined 31 years...

I started my trip in the easiest state - the one I was already living in. Despite having lived in Vancouver, WA for six months, I hadn’t...

After the separation from my wife, I found my new, temporary home in Vancouver, Washington not to be confused with Vancouver, British...

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