The perspective I think is most interesting I had 30 hours in Jacksonville Beach. Not to return, but to reload and go. The 30-hour constraint made this stop particularly memorable. I returned to Jacksonville Beach with three major jobs to…
The beautiful club house
Once I decided I was going to take a roadtrip around America it was time to begin preparing the logistics of the truck. That included outfitting my 2020 Ram 1500 pickup truck with a truck bed cover and rack system…
I was in New Orleans on June 19, 2026, on the day of a relatively new holiday, Juneteenth. Juneteenth itself originated in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3, informing…
Brainstorming, researching, and conceiving of “ rebirth on the road”, a 160 Day Rd. trip of America celebrating my rebirth after a bone marrow transplant
If Mondays belong to the Maple Leaf, Thursdays belong to Vaughan’s. Vaughan’s Lounge is a small, unassuming bar in the Bywater — an iconic Ninth Ward bar that’s been around since 1959, one of three bars that make up the…
If you want to understand New Orleans music — not the postcard version, but the real version, the one that’s been quietly running this city’s soul for half a century — you go to the Maple Leaf Bar on Oak…
And then — because apparently the city had decided I hadn’t had enough yet — came the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Eight days, spread across two weekends, at the Fair Grounds Race Course. I went to all eight.…
Spring rolled around, and with it came French Quarter Festival — four days, dozens of stages tucked into courtyards and squares and riverfront lawns across the Quarter, almost entirely free, and absolutely packed with the kind of local talent that…
Beads upon beads with beautiful people.