Beulah Burger

This was probably the best burger I’ve ever had, and I can’t really tell you why. It tasted like it was cooked on a grill that hasn’t been scraped clean for fifty years. It tasted like the product of decades of greasy, beefy buildup. It was really, really good. Maybe the exceptional quality of this [...]

Golden Eagle

Gwen and I have been “sharing company” for a while now. Fine… It’s been a really long time. Not important. What’s relevant is that among the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of repeated stories that any long-term couple is subjected to, there’s one Gwen (and her family) tells that has always stuck out. It’s notable primarily because [...]

Aliens!

After spending dozens of hours drifting along midwestern highways, the seemingly benign rural scenery will melt away and reveal itself to be a sinister landscape. Why? Aliens.

Just look! These photos are proof of the frightening technologies and structures that Aliens have been planting throughout America’s fruited planes. Grain silos? High-tension power lines? Power plants [...]

Things get a little better

We drove from Chicago amid dire tornado warnings. A gang of vortexes was mugging the region. Apparently the country’s weather has resorted to petty theft. But we slipped away into a dark alley and ended up in Lake Geneva, WI. The campground was littered with downed trees and glistening with fresh rain. It was pretty [...]

Mmm… deep dish

Chicago, land of heavy breezes,  a losing baseball team, noteworthy architecture…. and pizza. Our knowledge of the windy city is in depth and comprehensive.
Chicago was our first real stop this time out, and because we’re skinflints, it was only for lunch – not too many places to pitch a tent on the Magnificent Mile. So… [...]

Slow Down, Gwen

Our journey to Alaska began on a warm June evening. We left my parents’ house in the Berkshires (western Massachusetts), and headed west on Interstate 90 – the plan was to make it to Chicago by morning. The windows were down, our eyeballs were glittering with images of polar bears and glaciers, nothing could stop [...]

We’re Back!

…and it’s about time. Clearly we didn’t live up to the high expectations of that last post. It’s been 4 months, during which time we got older, made some gas money, caught sharks, lived in Sarah Palin’s home state, and watched the economy tank worse than the Exxon Valdez. Now we’re going to try to [...]