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Southern Fried Road Trip Days 1-2: Pork & Pontiacs

The flight in was uneventful, which is always good.  Eventful flights may give you fun stories to tell later but they kind of suck when they are actually happening. Got the rental car and had a bad feeling about it.  It was a Ford Fusion, which normally would be just...

Southern Fried Road Trip Day 0: Erika, Bad You

So the intention was to take a little trip down south for my birthday.  Spend a couple of days in Atlanta, then three nights in Charleston, three nights in my beloved Savannah, and then back to Atlanta for a night, with some good road trip fun along the way. Now some...

Sweet Home Chicago Day 2: Battle of Porkinator

We shall call today the day of way too much food. As many of you know, I love food but food, often, doesn’t love me back. It’s all the glorious consequence of having a significant chunk of gastric system removed in order to get rid of cancer and while I am able to eat...

Sweet Home Chicago Day 1

I really need to learn how to be the type of person who can go to a place and just enjoy it, rather than looking at everything and wondering how I’m going to describe it later. It’s the travel writer in me, perhaps yearning for a chance to write about something other...