I love, love, love this picture. Not so much for the photograph itself (which is kind of plain), but for the sentiment. It's from the...

Ok, we'll admit it. We're ready to be done. 27,000 miles is a LONG way and we are both pretty pooped. Yet . . . This was the perfect part...

Sanctuary can be defined as "a holy place", "a nature reserve", or "a place of refuge". For us, New Mexico was all of that. It was just...

Oklahoma turned out to be, even more so than Arkansas, one of the MOST interesting and surprising places we never expected to enjoy....

(Note: Joan's taking the lead on writing this one, so imagine her speaking :-) As we'd crossed over from Louisiana, Texas felt just a...

Suddenly the climate, the culture, the food, the music, and the weather scratched an itch we didn't realize we had. Maybe this picture of...

We arrived in New Orleans expecting a relatively low key, fun time. A break from the intensity of Mississippi. But of course in Nola...

We just wanted a placeholder to remember all the amazing public art that we've seen on this trip. There were amazing pieces across almost...

After Arkansas, we finally headed down into Mississippi, the apex or nadir of the deep south. Excited for the birthplaces of Blues, Jazz,...

Long story short, we liked Arkansas WAY more than we thought we would. Before heading to the Mississippi delta, Joan & I decided to take...

Yet another unplanned, theme-based part of the journey. Essentially, we found ourselves doing an musical archeology dig. From Rock & Roll...

We talk a lot about why some places "feel like home" while others are very different. After our experience in Georgia, we thought we were...

Maybe it's because we "started" in Wilmington, home of a race-based Coup d'Etat. Or maybe it was just coincidence. Whatever the reason,...

Over the past 3 weeks we've bounced from North Carolina to California and back for the Thanksgiving holiday. The whirlwind nature of it...

Recently, we clipped a small corner of Pennsylvania today, near the town of Washington, PA, so PA became our 30th different state. Wow! ....

It's a mystery why certain places seem to reach out and ask you to visit, as if there were a string connecting you to the place....

After leaving Monticello, we headed east towards the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Great Smokie Mountains, and all that Appalachia has to...

After doing two loop-de-loops through New England, we turned and bolted down to Delaware to catch up with Joan's cousin, Joanie. (yes,...

As it turns out, we know a lot of people who've moved back to New England. Combining that with the need to get our boosters, celebrate...

Randy's dad grew up working on the old family dairy farm in Putnam every summer. He and his brothers used to take the train out from...