We woke up early at the Veteran’s Museum and decided to show Anthony a piece of Americana by eating breakfast at a nearby Waffle House.  We at a good breakfast and watched in amazement as the waitress brought us a handwritten invoice, added up manually like it was the 20th century. We had planned on…

Our trip today from Nashville, TN to O’Fallon, MO (outside of St. Louis) led us through 5 states: Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. We woke up early after our first Harvest Host stay after a relaxing, quiet night behind the church.  After a quick breakfast we were on our way to our next Harvest…

Saturday we left Allatoona Lake early and arrived at our arrival at our first “Harvest Host” site in Gallatin, TN.  With fairly low traffic congestion and the time change we originally had an arrival time before 11AM! Harvest Hosts is a program where you can stay at places overnight for free – you are just…

Friday was a long and mostly good day.  After a leisurely morning ritual and breakfast, we departed Jennings KOA for our next stop at the Allatoona Lake Campground (and resort!)  We stopped at Walmart on the way to get stuff that Scott and Tom (mostly Scott) forgot, and we once more forgot to buy Anthony…

We all woke up early on Thursday anticipating an afternoon departure for somewhere between Florida and Georgia.  We also anticipated a visit from the third OWG, Steve, who would stop by to plan our next trip with him, clean Scott’s camera, and give sage advice to the whippersnapper who was joining him on this trip…

Our team of Scott, Tom, and Anthony Pinos (Scott’s 19 year old former Little in the Big Brothers program) flew to Orlando on Wednesday June 7th.  The weather was hazy with smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketing the Northeast with stinky and irritating blanket that made visibility limited – in fact, the next morning visibility…