Yes, there is a town called Adrian in Missouri. Yes, it was 105 degrees when we drove through. And, yes, that is a Dr Pepper flavoured slurpee. Awesome!

Life on the Farm!! A mere 12 hour drive from the hustle, bustle and mayhem of New Orleans is a tiny oasis in the Ozark Mountains called Thomas Hollow. In this Hollow there is a creek where fish, crawdads and velvet ants frollock and there is a wood where armadillos, snakes and foxes dance. Along this creek and through the wood there is a road where butterflies flutter and wasps, bees and fireflies go about their buzzy business. Next to this road is a farm with a ...

The Big Easy... One of our favorite towns. This was definitely a vacation from our vacation. We stayed in fairly swank accommodation, for our standards anyway, in the warehouse district. We got in, set our stuff down, and headed to the bike shop to pick up a couple of cruisers for the weekend. After we had our respective rides in our possession we made our way down to the French quarter. Where else besides LaFitte's? - the country's oldest pub for a couple of d...

Memphis, home of BBQ and the Blues. I would say we definitely had a delicious taste of both. After checking into our hostel located on the top floor of a church in midtown, we grabbed a couple local beers at the funky corner bar. We enjoyed a gourmet southern dinner before heading down to check out what the fuss is about on Beale Street. It just so happened to be bike night. I will say, It was certainly different than I was used to. In Milwaukee you see tons of ...

Viva Nash-Vegas!! Music City, USA home of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Grand Ol' Opry, and countless live music venues and honky tonk bars. We had a great night out on the Broadway strip; drank some of the local swill; Jack Daniel's Honey, made friends of a couple southern gents, (one took Gina for a spin on the dance floor and then quite politely reminded me that I was "a lucky man") and rocked out to some good ol' live southern rock and country. Also, of...