Ah to be back in a Walmart parking lot in the middle of nowhere.  Well, apologies to the residents of Deltona, Florida, but being exactly halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach, this isn’t exactly a destination.  I did appreciate the naming of the bar across the street as the Sports Den, before even entering there [...]

The Atlantic.  Wait, the Atlantic Ocean?  The Atlantic anticlimax?  As quickly as the Georgia pines of last week turned to palm trees, so too did the New Mexico desert of 8 months ago give way to sandy Florida beaches and me staring towards Spain. So FYI, it’s not that difficult to drive all the way [...]

I’m pretty sure the icing on the cake was me spending New Years Eve at a potluck full of 65 year olds at the group shelter at the Little Ocmulgee campground in the middle of nowhere in Georgia.  Either that, or me kicking everyone’s ass at dominos until they got too tired and went to [...]

“I love your hat, where’d you get it?” the waitress asked of the pink-sequined Santa hat I was wearing as we ate sushi. “I found it on the floor last night at an ugly sweater party at Blue Bar.  Frosty the snow man was DJing.”  I still think it has some potential to become a [...]

OK, so Oxford isn’t actually in the Delta as evidenced by the fact there are hills, but it’s close enough, and I absolutely adore alliteration.  Here’s the gallery. Home to all things William Faulkner and the legendary university Ole’ Miss, Oxford sticks out like a sore thumb versus the rest of northern Mississippi.  A rich, [...]

Friar’s point, Vicksburg, Rosedale, at least I’ve been to all the places Robert Johnson mentions in the song.  Nobody’s squeezed my lemon ‘til the juice runs down my leg yet…not that I have any clue what that’s supposed to mean… Travelling back in time to the pilgrimage to his gravesite a few weeks ago (at [...]