Everything you wanted to know about my travels both near and far.

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Thoughts from a Road Trip

Thoughts on a Road Trip

It is all too easy to get stuck in the rut of everyday life and not experience anything outside the small triangle of ground between your house, office, and the nearest supermarket. Taking a road trip is an eye-opening way to help you see the world in a wholly new way. It can be hard…

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Roadside Attractions Ranked

Cadillac Ranch - One of the Ultimate Roadside Attractions

Nothing this side of apple pie is more American than the road trip. Driving 5,000 miles is a great way to see the country in a whole new light. Taking in the changing scenery, sampling the diverse cuisine and meeting a friendly assortment of people all contribute to the experience, but the most uniquely American…

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Breaking Bad RV Tour Review

A fun thing to do in Albuquerque

Vince Gilligan originally intended for Breaking Bad to be set in Riverside, California, a fact I learned while taking the Breaking Bad RV tour on a chilly day in Albuquerque. If Riverside had stayed the location, I likely would have been tooling around the 12th largest city in California instead of the largest one in…

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La Belle Esplanade – Unlike Any Hotel

A great place to stay in New Orleans

“There’s the TV, “ proprietor Matthew King pointed out as he showed me my suite. “Please don’t spend time in here watching it.” People travel for different reasons. If the primary goal of your travels is to find someplace new to stream movies, surf the web or just lie around and do nothing, La Belle…

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The Perfect Photo: This Way Lies Madness

It’s a quintessential New Orleans’ evening. The fog is rolling in off the Mississippi River obscuring the ghosts of long-dead scoundrels and thieves in the mist. Andrew Jackson on his trusty steed rises above the murk in Jackson Square. The neon lights of Bourbon Street beckon. And I’m standing next to the streetcar tracks waiting for…

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Whiteside Street

Answering customer service phone calls gets to be a monotonous bore after a while. Way back in 1990-something I had the opportunity to answer the calls for American Family Publishers, the magazine wholesaler that spokesman Ed McMahon gleefully exclaimed offered customers the unbelievable chance to win 10 MILLION DOLLARS!!!* (*If they had and returned the…

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