In search of the continuous road trip
Walking through the woods on Kelleys Island, Paul has his eyes on the ground. Paul always has his eyes on the ground when we’re walking through the woods in the spring. He’s looking for morels. We found one morel once, a big one, but we …
I love it when my expectations are exceeded. Kelleys Island, north of Sandusky in the middle of Lake Erie, was an amazing, unique place. Quiet, peaceful, old. Perfect ratio of restaurants/bars to residents (not that any of the restaurants/bars were open yet, but…). Cute houses, …
So, Ohio has Islands. Yep. Islands. Along its coast. Yeah, the coast of Lake Erie north of Sandusky. We visited two. Just watch out, there are snakes. Kelleys Island Kelleys Island feels like a sleepy old colonial island off Connecticut. Or maybe off Door County, …
Well, we’ve published 300 posts on our blog. #300 fired off this morning — my post about Detroit. Seems like a lot of writing. It’s been a lot of miles — just under 18,000 so far. We’re 6.5 months into our trip and still loving …
Detroit is a ghost town. It’s just like Rhyolite in Death Valley and the Salton Sea. It’s dead. I was prepared to see empty lots and vacant properties and bombed-out buildings, but I wasn’t expecting a ghost town. The level of decay and neglect is …
In Detroit, you don’t eat hot dogs, you eat Coney Dogs — hot dogs topped with bean-free, all-meat chili and chopped onions and mustard. Dip into the Ohio-area and they’ll put cheese on it too. Yum. Note: This ain’t a New York thing.
You’re headed to a new city — how do you figure out what to do to get that total <insert city name here> experience? We found ourselves in this situation when we recently visited Detroit, so I turned to my old friend, the internet, for …
We’re a bit behind uploading prints to our CafePress store, but we added a few recently including these: Andrew Molera Beach, Big Sur, Framed Print McWay Falls, Big Sur, Framed Print VW Stealth Camping, Big Sur, Framed Print Framed prints are $80, use code “SHOPTA1” …
A few weeks before our anticipated return to Chicago, we started a list of the restaurants we wanted to hit up when we were back in the city. It was impossibly long, and it brought up tons of fun memories of dining out with friends. …
After our stop in Chicago, we’re going to meet up with Lisa’s parents in Ohio. We’ll kill a little time in Detroit before that, and afterward we’re planning to head south to the Carolinas, then west to New Orleans. Plans are loose, like Rocky’s front …
You know you’re getting close to Chicago not by the signs but by the traffic. You’ll be driving along, minding your own business in the middle lane, when a Lexus and an Acura or a Pontiac Grand Prix will appear and zoom around you in …
There’s a pretty good chance we’ll never set foot in Terre Haute again. For about a quarter century, Lisa and I managed to avoid the city. Then we visited regularly(ish) because our good friends Ben and Gina lived there. Now they’re moving. We’re probably not …