I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
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...
The Year of Living Differently: Georgia on My Mind Day 6 (Last Day in Savannah)
My last full day in Savannah – that makes me a little sad, I have to admit. I can’t tell you how much I am in love with this city. I mean, I liked it before after my two brief visits years ago but now I love it. There’s something special about this place that is a...
The Year of Living Differently: Georgia on My Mind Day 5 (More Savannah)
I had the following thought last night: I’m staying in a hotel with no room service, no mini-bar, and no in-room movies. I might as well be camping. Yes, I am that spoiled by Vegas hotel rooms and heir non-stop menu of amenities and services. I really need to get...
The Year of Living Differently: Georgia on My Mind Day 4 (A Birthday in Savannah)
So today I’m 48. Thank you for all the happy birthday wishes via Facebook, email, text, and the like. It is definitely appreciated. Either read (or skip) to the end for the punchline about my special birthday concerto. I started the day later than I planned, again,...
The Year of Living Differently: Georgia on My Mind Day 3 (Road Trip!)
Many of you will remember the Plucky Survivors See America tour that me and my late friend Mary took around various parts of the US. They involved lots of driving, lots of food, lots of silly roadside attractions (and a few serious ones), and cows. It’s a long...
The Year of Living Differently: Georgia on my Mind Day 2 (Atlanta Again)
I got a little bit later of a start than I intended because I’m on vacation and I don’t really need to get up as early as my stupid schedule was dictating. I like to keep busy so I wind up cramming so much stuff in that I can never get to it all unless I start at...
The Year of Living Differently: Georgia on My Mind Day 1 (Atlanta)
Georgia Traveloguey Why are you going there? That has been the most common question I have received when I told people I was going to Atlanta and Savannah for my birthday vacation. The reasons are long and varied. Food is a big part of it – I love southern food and...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.