Adventures after Retirement

3/9/18 The intention this morning was just to make it back home to Boulder at a reasonable time.  Since we were in Amarillo near the Texas border, we didn’t have much left to see of Texas.  We looked at the map and it seemed that heading straight North would take us through the panhandle of… Continue reading Texas to Oklahoma to Colorado

3/8/18 We got an unusually early start out of Shreveport this morning with the intention of trying to make it to Amarillo, Texas by the end of the day.  We were thinking getting home by Friday night would be good and we needed to put some miles in to make that possible. Our first stop… Continue reading Louisiana to Texas

3/7/18 For once we got a really early start this morning since we were meeting our friend Denali for breakfast at a cafe at 8am. She suggested a great local cafe that has several locations around the city. Unfortunately, we arrived and did not find her and when I called her we realized that I… Continue reading Louisiana

3/6/18 It was pouring rain when we woke up outside of Mobile, Alabama this morning and the forecast was for rain until 11am.  We headed down highway 10 along the coast towards Boloxi.  I had previously noticed in my Florida trips that I would see a restaurant named “Waffle House” about every few blocks.  On… Continue reading Alabama to New Orleans

3/5/18 Today we left Gainesville after a great visit with my daughter Kayla and her wife Ann.  We were with them for a week and it just flew by.  Jack was able to visit his brother Mike in St. Petersburg and we went kayaking twice as well as going to Orlando for a day to… Continue reading Back on the road

2/26/18 Since it was dark when we got into Charleston last night, we were looking forward to this morning when we could get our bearings and take a look around. We left our hotel and headed to historic downtown Charleston and the first order of business was coffee. We found this great spot and were… Continue reading South Carolina to Florida

2/25/18 The rain pounding on the roof woke us up about 8:30 this morning. Yesterday was a long day that ended with dinner and some drinks with friends in Roswell and then returning to their beautiful home in Milton, Ga.  It was midnight before we settled down in their great guest quarters over the garage… Continue reading Georgia to South Carolina

2/24/18 We started out a little late after sleeping in a bit and headed out for the back roads to Lynchburg to see the Jack Daniels distillery.  Lynchburg is a tiny town in far southern Tennessee and Jack Daniels is the likely the only reason most folks go down there. On the way we stopped… Continue reading Tennessee to Georgia

1/23/18 Started out today in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.  It was absolutely pouring when we left the motel and of course we had not packed an umbrella.  We stopped in a little coffee shop in town and ordered two Americanos.  The friendly middle-aged server looked past us to the menu on the wall and read out “Oh,… Continue reading Bourbon, Blackout and the Blues

1/222/18 Today we woke to another cold morning in the 20’s but with the promise of warming later in the day.  We Yelped for a coffee place and were shocked that there was not one anywhere nearby so we had to hit the road with no caffeine. On the way out of Branson, we saw… Continue reading Missouri to Kentucky