It was a short 3 hour drive from Chattanooga to Gatlinburg, through Pigeon Forge (or what Derek kept referring to as “the place with all the goofy shit”), and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which sits on both the statelines of Tennessee and North Carolina. We decided this would be the last place for … More Our final stop: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee

After back to back city visits, we were in serious need of two things: detoxing and the outdoors. We’ve also reached the point in our road trip that we have to face the fact that unless we pull a sharp left turn and head back west, we’re driving north to Boston. And as much as … More Cloudland Canyon, Georgia

Derek and I went back and forth on whether we would visit New Orleans. Neither of us had been before, but he had heard from people who had that it wasn’t the safest place and that if you wandered outside of the French Quarter, it gets sketchy real fast. Not that I disagreed with this, … More New Orleans: Live Music, Fried Food, Gators, and Voodoo