Two Writers, 50 States, Endless Stories
Posted in Eat and Drink, Three-fer Friday on Apr 30th, 2010
Some people get all high horsey about healthy eating and good nutrition and all those things I care about but don’t treat as a religion.
Me, I got no high horse. I eat my broccoli, mostly because I have to. I eat lima beans. I actually like those. But I also eat Costco gourmet chocolate chunk [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arkansas, Listen, New Jersey, Three-fer Friday on Apr 23rd, 2010
The unimaginable has happened. You’re on a really long road trip and the radio/MP3 player/whatever jams. You can’t turn it off. You can’t make it skip to the next song or back to the last. But, by some miracle, it got stuck on one of the only songs you could listen to on repeat for [...]
Posted in Arkansas, Do, Eat and Drink, Oklahoma, See, Three-fer Friday on Apr 16th, 2010
A good road trip is as much about the stopping as the going and we all have our must-stops—for some people it’s diners, for some it’s a glorious view, for some it’s a state-line-sign photo op. And that’s the topic of today’s Three-fer.
Joining us is an underground hero and a Dallas celebrity, Bucks Burnett—record dealer; [...]
Posted in Do, Eat and Drink, Go, Listen, See, Three-fer Friday on Apr 9th, 2010
Whether it’s 5 a.m. or 5 p.m., I know what you’re thinking on this spring day: what kind of trouble can I go get into tonight? Well, maybe not trouble–but a bit of fun, right? I mean, seriously, it’s spring. You know you’re feeling sassy. In honor of getting into trouble, having fun, or just [...]
Posted in New York, Oklahoma, Read, See, Three-fer Friday on Apr 2nd, 2010
Reality is overrated, which is why both Jenna and I are avid readers of fiction. (And yeah, I write fiction, too. I have several novels in a filing cabinet where no one will ever see them. Publishing a novel is high on my bucket list.)
So for this week’s Three-fer, we decided to [...]
Posted in Do, Eat and Drink, Go, Montana, New Jersey, Three-fer Friday on Mar 26th, 2010
Whether it’s for their kitsch factor or their elegance or that they just have an unexplainable X factor–so, an “it” place–there are certain museumshotelsfieldsVFWhalls that just scream, Rent me for the night! Let’s have a shindig! Some are close to home and others are destination party places we encountered while traipsing around the country. Here, spots [...]
Posted in Arizona, California, Do, Eat and Drink, Listen, Three-fer Friday on Mar 19th, 2010
Any dedicated road tripper has rituals for the ride: Necessary preparations, must-listen-to music, requisite snacks. Speed limits, shmeed limits. These are the really important rules of the road.
For today’s Three-fer, we bring you always hilarious, excellently outrageous Joe Rhodes, a frequent contributor to TV Guide, Reader’s Digest and The New York Times. Joe has decided [...]
Posted in Alabama, California, Discuss, New York, Read, Three-fer Friday on Mar 12th, 2010
Public libraries are the most modest of attractions. Their staffs rarely show off about all the free events they hold or, quite frankly, that just about everything they offer is free. Even the glitziest most high-tech of public libraries feel welcoming when you walk inside. Yes, those computers are available for you to check your [...]
Posted in Three-fer Friday on Mar 5th, 2010
We are not breakfast skippers here at Flyover America. No indeed, we are more than happy to start our days with a big platter of deliciousness in front of us, chugging as many cups of coffee as the waitress will allow before she starts giving us the stinkeye.
Not only that, but because food has no [...]
Posted in Arizona, Buy, New York, Tennessee, Three-fer Friday on Feb 26th, 2010
All that glitters (or, as Shakespeare originally wrote in The Merchant of Venice, glisters) is not gold. But while Willie was going for a life lesson, here at Flyover America, all that glisters is not gold because it could be a shark tooth or a super shiny pebble or a crocheted necklace or, well, or [...]
