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

We rolled into Austin midday on Thursday. We had given the Teczar’s a heads up, because they were still both at work, but we were able to make ourselves at home (read: we did our best to empty their beer fridge). Tara and I hung out and relaxed, but I think Murphy may have been … More Austin, Massachusetts… wait, that’s not right.

After Luckenbach we stopped at a few other recommendations, the first being Fredericksburg. There’s not a lot to really get into about Fredericksburg… it’s a nice small town that is like little Germany in the middle of Texas. Signs read “Willkommen” instead of welcome. We had lunch and walked around checking out some stores and … More More Texas Hill Country…

So, before heading out of San Antonio we talked to the Teczar clan about possible places to check out while on our way to Texas and through hill country. I say the Teczar clan because I must have caught them eating dinner.. I was able to talk to everyone on speaker… I had Max tell me about … More Luckenbach, Texas…Pop. 3

After saying goodbye to Jay and Thayer, Tara and I headed towards San Antonio. We had a few days before we were expected in Austin, and San Antonio was on the way. I think. Honestly, everything has been on the way. We pulled in to San Antonio and drove around looking for parking. Finally, we … More One night in San Antone…

I grew up camping a lot with our family on the islands and in the desert in Abu Dhabi, which is probably part of the reason why my brother, Jason, and I both have a shared interest in camping and the outdoors – definitely more so than either of my sisters…who hate the smell of … More Camping our way through West Texas

After our last night in Ouray, Colorado, it was time to start making the trip towards Texas to meet up with my brother, Jason, and nephew Thayer as we had planned to meet them to camp for a few nights in west Texas. But first we had a ways to go through Colorado and New … More From Colorado and New Mexico, to Amarillo, Texas…and a lot of steak.

It’s been awhile since either Derek or I posted anything on our blog, so we’re going to do our best to pick up somewhat where we left off and get back on track, and in the meantime I wanted to just write a quick update of where we’ve been since early October. The purpose of us … More So it’s been awhile…