Life lessons come in many forms, from many places, and from many people. We took a thirteen day road trip around the South, exploring small towns and taking the time to get to know people along the way. Each of them had something to teach us, if only we were willing to listen. Here are […]

Mountain views, Christmas tree farms, and the final stretch home, as we continue to seek truth in our day to day. I knew this was going to happen. If there was one thing we learned on the road, it's that life will wait. If there's one thing we learned upon returning, it's that you have […]

A road trip of adventures across the Deep South brings us to Cullman AL, where we spend the night inside an old juke joint and get a refreshing reminder that time waits for no one. It's crazy sometimes how the world puts people in your path. We left Monroeville, AL early the next morning and […]

Visiting a few small towns across Alabama, our main focus was Monroeville - home of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as Truman Capote's childhood home. And the crazy-ass, endless Deep South Road Trip continues. We're in the homestretch now! Mobile, AL We left NOLA and headed for Mobile, AL to meet […]

New Orleans, LA can get a bad rap if all you see is Bourbon Street. But if you step off the beaten path, it has a lot of history and adventure to offer, not to mention delicious food! Guys! I'm still here. I know, you were probably worried for a minute that we got finished […]

Yesterday was a blur, and a route that didn't make a whole lot of sense to the naked eye. Not that any of our routes make much sense. A friend and coworker of Brandan's who also sat on his advisory board for his dissertation lives in Oxford, and Brandan wanted to pass through on graduation […]

Welcome to Clarksdale, MS, home of Larry's Tamales, the Delta blues, and The Shack Up Inn. This post should really read, "Clarksdale, Leland, Indianola, Cleveland, Merigold, MS" but the title was already overwhelming enough. We pulled into Clarksdale on Wednesday afternoon, and headed straight for Larry's Tamales. It was past lunch time, and we all know […]

We took another lazy route yesterday, passing through Brownsville and traveling down 14 into Memphis. I've tried multiple times to add the Google map of our route, but every time I go to embed it, it switches the route back to I-40, which isn't the road we traveled. I got frustrated and scrapped the map. Between […]

Over the hills and through the woods, to Humbolt, TN. Humbolt brought farms, horses, BBQ and bourbon. Arguably, is there anything else you need? So, Brandan read my Nashville post yesterday (so fast, too, like before we left the coffee shop - I think he might be stalking me.)  His immediate response was that I wrote […]

True, Nashville, TN is not a "small town." But, it is considered the South, and made a good stopping point for where we were. It's also home to hot chicken and paleo donuts - what more could you want? I left you yesterday with us waking up in Sparta on the farm to the rooster […]

Sparta, TN is a small town in Tennessee. There's not much in Sparta. It's mostly country and farmland. A stop in Cookville, TN to see The Minister's Treehouse brought us unexpected adventure, and our Airbnb host in Sparta brought stories of a life well lived. Day 2 was a looong driving day. We knew this […]

Lexington, GA is a small town just outside of Athens, GA. Like other small towns, it has suffered at the creation of the interstate and lack of money coming into the town. The love and community this small town has is unparalleled to anywhere else we found. After packing my GIANT ASS suitcase in the […]