Wichita to Cali
With 3 short days to drive from Wichita to San Diego, we decided to get a head start and get going directly after work on Saturday. These are some shots from Arizona and California along the way.
Beyond Graceland
Memphis: home of Fedex, The Piggly Wiggly, one of the busiest cement terminals in the country, and Pork Barbecue Capital of the World. We started with a HUGE pork shoulder sandwich at Neely’s. This may have been the best taste yet, and the price was right too!The other food highlight was ribs at Rendezvous, in […]
Puro Sabor de Juarez
Our last visits to El Paso focused primarily on history and nature (see entries from the Mission Trail, Hueco Tanks, Franklin Mountains, White Sands Natl. Monument). We had never really seen much of downtown, never mind crossed the border. El Paso’s downtown has lots of interesting gunslinger history, some neat old buildings, museums and cultural […]
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Storm Watchers in TX A few shots on the drive from Topeka to El Paso. We took a shorter route on a slightly smaller highway, avoiding passing through Albuquerque and seeing a few new sites along the way.
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
“Whatever else prairie is – grass, sky, wind – it is most of all a paradigm of infinity, a clearing full of many things except boundaries, and its power comes from its apparent limitlessness…” — William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth Hoping to use our new National Parks Pass for the first time, we set off into […]
Kansas Highlights
On a hike through the Herbert Reinhard Green Memorial Wildlife area, just outside Topeka, the photo above is some old farm equipment that would have been drawn by horses. The house in the photos on the link is was built by the Green family from the native stone remnants of Uniontown in 1877. The whole […]
Poor Pete
In the few days since we arrived in Topeka, Kansas, a sad situation has arisen. An industrious bird (I think it’s a house sparrow.) has started building a nest under the front of our trailer. Kate in our office has named him Pete. Donny has had to disassemble Pete’s nest twice now, but he keeps […]
Garlic Ranch Cheese Curds from the Brat Stop….Guess Where?
Holly Days
It’s been much too long since the last post. After wrapping up the season, we had a whirlwind drive from El Paso to Liberty, North Carolina to drop off the race car. From there, it was a race with the empty trailer directly to Chicago/Milwaukee, then flights back to the East Coast (ATL for Donny; […]
Bomb Your Beer
Our week in Phoenix leading up to the NASCAR race was pretty hectic. We did however get a chance to have Japanese food twice while we were there. We discovered a trend by accident. After ordering a beer the waitress came out with the beer plus a bottle of sake. At first we thought she […]