a few days before that last road trip update, joe and i took a saturday-night ghost tour of charleston. our guide, a local historian, took u...

our shack in mississippi had a three-ring journal. 8-29-05 Oh, what a night! Katrina blew in and shook the Robert Clay for hours. The power...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: IX * airbnb stays: 4 babies born to our hosts or their close friends during our stay: 2 (austin, TX; chicago, IL) be...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: VIII {11:00, nashville} the fellow tasked with showing us around our nashville airbnb (a landing spot chosen on the fly b...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: VII {18:15, somewhere in arkansas} we made it all the way to arkadelphia before encountering restroom sketchiness, which ...

the dirty dozen {twelve plus five* excerpts from yelp reviews of the mexican free-tailed bat colony beneath austin's congress avenue b...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: VI {08:45, tucson} we staggered to the front desk at our tucson hotel something like forty minutes before they let our ro...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: V {11:45, los angeles} in the six and a half hours it took us to get from our bungalow in phoenix to my sister and brothe...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: IV {17:55, phoenix} my sister-in-law brought our elfin redheaded nephew over from the other side of town last night. due ...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: III {13:45, phoenix) i called my dad at nine o'clock this morning, chest-deep in an amoeba-shaped pool in the middle ...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: II {19:55, somewhere over indiana} i sing of the peace of mind afforded by a $50 refurbished wifi camera! it's possib...

ROAD TRIP UPDATE: I car: coming along well at my in-laws' place in arizona, supposedly cassettes for car's old blaupunkt player:...