If you should ever have the disastrous misfortune of finding yourself in or around Dahlgren, Virginia (otherwise known as "The Navy’s Purgatory") at dinnertime, like I was repeatedly last week, I would strongly recommend that you hit up Regina’s Pasta Factory at 4581 James Madison Parkway, right next to Pancho …
I have been intentionally avoiding commenting on the charges brought against three Navy SEALS, simply because I believe that the full facts of the situation have not been adequately documented or exposed, and are not likely to be so until after those SEALS’ courts martial. However, this has got…
Date: 22 May 2007 Start: Tucumcari, New Mexico End: Holbrook, Arizona Distance Travelled: 431 miles Duration: 10 hours, 30 minutes (including accounting for MDT to MST change) Map link (approximate). Today started with us poking a little more around Tucumcari than we had …
The below picture was taken just a bit over a year ago in small town in southern Georgia, though something tells me the gas station in question had closed a considerable time before. By the same token, I doubt you and I will see prices that low again in our …
Date: 22 May 2007 Start: Decatur, Texas End: Tucumcari, New Mexico Distance Travelled: 456 miles Duration: 11 (including accounting for CDT to MDT change) Map link. Well, this particular day got out to a great start, and actually managed to maintain that …
Date: 20 May 2007 Start:Sulphur, Louisiana End:Decatur, Texas (with stop-over in Houston, Texas) Distance Travelled: 485 miles Duration: 13 hours, 30 minutes (with five hours spent in Houston) Map link (approximate information provided for Houston, for privacy’s sake, and for Dallas, since we got …
Date: 19 May 2007 Start: Southern Georgia End: Sulphur, Louisiana Distance Travelled: Approximately 650 miles Duration: 11 hours, 30 minutes (including accounting for EDT to CDT change) This, the second day of our trip, was definitely a time-and-distance day. Having driven this particular stretch of I-10 many times in the …
Well, before I launch into the whole day-by-day explanation of our trip, where we went, what we saw, and what we did, I thought I would get a few minor details out of the way first.
First off, there are going to be points in my explanation where I will …
Over 3240 miles, 115 gallons of gas, and $372 spent on gas later, Better Half and I are safely in California. Well, we were technically in California on the 27th of May, and at our destination on the 28th, but things have been a little busy since then, and …
Yes, I am still alive. But in the interest of using what spare time I have to slightly more constructive purposes, I will keep this post relatively short and to the point. Better Half directed me to the report that Tucumcari was seriously damaged during these past storms that rolled …
ver the course of planning for our upcoming trip, we have known about, stumbled upon, and discovered a fair number of useful sites and systems that I thought I would share with you.
AAA – I have somewhat mixed feelings about this organization, as does Better Half, so I am …
The good news is that Better Half and I have successfully arranged accommodations for ourselves all the way across the country at this point – Sulphur, LA (in the place of Lake Charles – it turns out the latter is a gambling town, and hard to get reservations in); Decatur, …
So, as previously mentioned in other posts, I will be moving out to the People’s Republic of Kalifornistan over the summer, departing sunny northern Florida for… well… something equally sunny, from what I understand. While I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with the end location, and its positively insane number of …
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