In terms of cocktails, mixing fear with confusion produces a seriously rough morning. Such was my first alligator gar experience. Fish or gator, it remains unknown. A long, thin, pointy jaw brimming with serrated teeth torpedoing towards the already deflating raft. A bright yellow plastic paddle fleeing before poising for fight. It was over. What … Continue reading Aside – The Alligator Gar

Thursday 4/11 - Friday 4/12 New Orleans, Louisiana The barrage of insects didn’t stop on that dreaded eve. However, our wake up call was significantly less insidious. Slug bugs slip slided all over the slippery sleek walls of our tent and we woke to their squishsquelchsquanch song. A second chance for the French Quarter. Equipped … Continue reading The Daily – Imagine Sliding Through a Tuba, Covered in Butter

Wednesday 4/10 De Soto National Forest Mississippi - New Orleans, Louisiana Some days are easy and some days are hard, but sometimes you’re ready and sometimes you’re not and this complicates. We weren’t ready for this humping day. The sun rose and the birds chirped and we spent a nude morning in the Mississippi woods, … Continue reading The Daily – Insectapalooza

Tuesday 4/9 Blackwater Florida - De Soto National Forest Mississippi Truth be told, I had my doubts about the south. Alabama in particular is a spoopydoopy place in my imaginings, full of chewing tobacco and risings again. However, the good ole boys have done the vanish life right. This is the land of a Planet … Continue reading The Daily – InMobile

Monday 4/8 Talladega Natl Forest, AL - Blackwater Florida We woke to a wet tent, potatoes, and Tajin. Today was a day for driving, so we started to drive. At a gas station outside Montgomery two things occurred to me. Firstly, that the greatest premiere event in TV History was less than a week away. … Continue reading To Pimp Alabama

Sunday 4/7 Chattahoochee Natl Forest, GA - Talladega Natl Forest, AL If you’re lucky, easy days are followed by easy mornings. For most people, this occurs on Sundays when they’re too broke to drink on Saturday. Somehow, it was a Sunday in Chattachoochee National Forest. Lukas cooked eggs and potatoes for our creekside brunch whilst … Continue reading The Daily – Blood

Saturday 4/6 Pisgah Natl Forest, NC - Chattahoochee Natl Forest, GA No matter how you live, some days are hard and some are easy. I know this is not a novel or exciting idea but, somehow, people forget. Anyway, this day, the sweet sweet sixth, was one of the easiest. Drawn to Asheville by hip … Continue reading Easy Ashy Ville

Friday 4/5 Shenandoah VA - Pisgah Natl Forest, NC Anyone who wishes to make a proper dream sequence requires a fog machine. Long robes, ominous voices, and soundtracks which heavily feature minor major seventh chords help a great deal, but without the fog machine, there’s really no point in even writing the prophetic vision sequence. … Continue reading The Daily – Dreamy

Thursday 4/4 Washington D.C. - Shenandoah Natl Park, VA Oh blogish nation, members of that less than half club half as well liked as deserved - a deeply felt apology is in order. We’ve been gone too long. In the wise wise words of Theodore Suess - “A blog is a slog, and the log … Continue reading The Daily – Rolling Blues

Saturday 3/23 - Wednesday 4/3 Washington D.C. DC was like New York, a real bed and some company. But, the dust settled in our eyes and I’m not going to pick through it to tell you exactly what we saw. DC was essentially museums and movies, with job apps and gyms sprinkled on top. The … Continue reading The Daily – Nixon Eats Lettuce