July 11 was a particularly interesting day in my journey because it brought together personal history, wellness, music, and a return to a place that had once been home. 🌿 Returning to Greenville was not just another stop on…
My July 3–10 stay on Lake Hartwell strikes me as one of the most meaningful transition points of the entire 160-day journey. It was not simply a stop on the road—it was a week where friendship, patriotism, nature, and preparation…
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
Pensacola and the Sparrow Eye At six o’clock on the morning of June 29, I woke up knowing that I was about to close the door on five and a half months of my life. New Orleans had been home.…
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.…