With a little time to kill in Cincinnati, we decided to hit up Smale Park. It was mentioned in several places as a nice afternoon outing.  That's a huge understatement.  This place is awesome.  At this point we're park connoisseurs...

This is how you pull off Thanksgiving on the road: Pull out of your cherry spot in the dry lake bed in Joshua Tree around 10 am.  Head due east.  Drive through some of the most desolate territory in the...

When I walked into the grocery store, the 2 or 3 people near the registers just sort of... stared.  One woman blinked several times.  I smiled (not that anyone could tell), half waved, brushed off some snow and made my...