road trip – Out of the Wilderness

What’s Your Go-To Road Trip Playlist?

I had around 5 hours in the car recently and the array of entertainment was pretty narrow. There was local radio, of course. My truck doesn’t have a scan button, which is a shame, but I buzzed through local stations trying to find 1) music I liked and 2) any station that wasn’t talking soContinue reading “What’s Your Go-To Road Trip Playlist?”

Ty Myers “Can’t Hold Me Down” and It’s Not A Puff Daddy Cover

This new song and video popped up on YouTube and I just knew it would be a cover of the Puff Daddy song “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down.” Besides the double negative meaning that someone actually CAN hold me down, the Ty Myers song is less of a brag and more of a pleading request.Continue reading “Ty Myers “Can’t Hold Me Down” and It’s Not A Puff Daddy Cover”

Rock, Blues, and Country Songs for a Road Trip

I recently returned from a two-week camping trip through Georgia and into Tennessee. I feel like a “y’all” is appropriate here. Y’all, my favorite campground was Cloudland Canyon State Park (recap here), very pretty and great hiking. Bummer they don’t allow swimming by the waterfalls but I’m sure they have their reasons. But, y’all, theContinue reading “Rock, Blues, and Country Songs for a Road Trip”

Portraits of Texas on the road

Texas. Is. Beautiful. Somewhere between Mother Neff State Park and Dinosaur Valley State Park (recaps here) the views changed to this beautiful copper landscape that I can’t get enough of. Ranches and farms as big as from me to the horizon. Cows, horses, donkeys, goats. And larger than life wind turbines as far as theContinue reading “Portraits of Texas on the road”

Pensacola Beach – in Pictures

I was recently in Pensacola for one of my nieces soccer tournaments. I’ve already posted about it once here. But I just downloaded the photos from that week and, surprisingly, there aren’t any soccer photos… I’m a terrible uncle. I’ll be getting coal in my stocking this year but besides that, here are a handfulContinue reading “Pensacola Beach – in Pictures”