Travel

One for the Road

October 12, 2011
One for the Road

If you ever wanted to go on the weirdest vacation ever, get yourself to Chicago, rent a car, and drive down to New Orleans. Stop at strange wineries where the wine pourers forget to zip their pants, visit cities that are semi-cool but littered with great beverages, food, and occasional sites (like an arch where you can get into a pod and shoot up to the top – holla!), and without a doubt, grab some Rainbow Twizzlers to keep you going. Make sure you have your “fat pants” with you though, because by the middle of the week, you’ll need them. But first, see a great friend’s nuptials. Hang out with your old work buddies. And sit at the table of white folk that won the dance-off. Yeah, we did that. Felicia aka homeslice – congrats! The next day, our visit to Chicago unfortunately very short, we had a...

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Out Conquering Mountains

September 15, 2011
Out Conquering Mountains

Howdy, folks. I’ve missed you. Believe it or not, I haven’t visited my blog at all since last Friday (!). That almost never happens, but we were fortunate enough to be staying at a resort sans (free) wi-fi. And since it was sorta like vacation, I didn’t mind. Chris, on the other hand, was a little upset at first, but that’s just because he had a little work to do at the beginning. He got used to it, and he spent the ride home from the Oakland airport checking 4 days of Facebook posts. It doesn’t take much for us to “turn off” for a few days, and I’m glad we’re both able to do so, with limited issue. With almost two weeks of September behind us, we’re now getting ready for a long weekend of visitors from Chicago, which means my time here is limited. But nonetheless, I made time...

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Feature

The Gut Buster

Eating good, healthy food is an admirable goal. It’s a really good goal. Sometimes though, it’s just. so. dang. hard. Ya feel me? Exhibit...

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