For the bargain price of $11 each, Storm and I take a guided tour of the Wild Turkey Distillery. “Bubba,” a 78 year old Marine Corps Drill Sergeant from Salisbury, NC, guides our unit of tourists and keeps us in stitches with distillery trivia. In the museum, I learn that during prohibition the distilleries kept […]
Ark Encounter of the Worst Kind
First of all, there are a lot more gift shops and snack bars in Noah’s Ark than I expected. I would love to rant endlessly about that and other disappointing aspects of our nearly $100 visit to the Biblical fantasy land called Ark Encounter. Instead, I will attempt to limit this story to helpful tips […]
Red Bull Air Race – One More Off the Bucket List
Michael Goulian wins the Red Bull Air Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. Storm and I are relieved that he won as he is the only racer we had heard of before this trip. We learned that the most excitement in this type of race is when someone cuts a pylon. The pylons […]
Amish Blessings in Shipshewana
If you are searching for life’s meaning or floundering in a spiritual abyss, then you may find the answers you seek in Shipshewana. If ever a people demonstrated a great relationship with the Almighty, the Amish bike riders and carriage drivers here do just that. That any one of them lives to maturity seems a […]
Update on JC Refrigeration Repairs
If Storm had allowed me to dwell on the rat’s nest of refrigerator wiring shown above, I would never have been able to sleep in our RV. In just three hours JC Refrigeration cleans up this potential disaster and we begin the test phase of this undertaking. Here are the cold, hard facts regarding this […]
A Driving Storm to Indiana
Our original plan after Spearfish is to quickly hop across several states arriving in Shipshewana, IN just in time for our refrigerator upgrade at JC Refrigeration. I brace myself for some hard days riding as Storm attacks the miles ahead like Patton marching the 3rd army toward Berlin. As Storm’s chief intelligence officer, I am […]
