My mom and dad don’t come from big families and while we saw my mom’s brother’s family a few times a year, it never seemed to match the scale that I saw in other families in our neighborhood. The Breens were the most notable in my mind. They had tons of aunts, uncles, […]

Reading this put a fascinating look on all the things that I learned in Mr. McPartlin’s American History class. This book takes you on a trip through American Political History focusing on political paradigms instead of each change of power. When looked at this way, the shifts in power and policy seem […]

Landing in the badlands after spending an entire night crossing the prairies of South Dakota was incredibly eerie. Waking up after hunkering down quickly to avoid a thunderstorm the night before, we woke up and saw we had camped in someone’s driveway.

So hurried to get out of there before we got yelled […]

Watching this political season unfold has been both interesting and maddening. Never under the illusion that politicians were any more moral or righteous creatures than the rest of us, it wasn’t hard to accept the deficiencies inherent in each candidate. I’ve also never felt that I should cast a ‘protest’ vote just because […]

A few links that made me laugh
* Hiring Advice From Rudy Giuliani
* Very punny movie poster
* Republicans….fighting the eastern elites!
* John Stewart rolling out the ‘Gotcha’ clip reel

Over the next 24 hours, you’ll start to see a backlog of posts going up with stories about the last month or so. The pictures have been updated with what we think are easily the best groups of the entire trip. Take the time to get through the sets as we had to […]

Watched most of the Republican Convention and it was nice to see the Republicans rolling out their attack machine in such a proud way. The media talked about how the Democratic Convention was going to be about catharsis for dejected Hillary supporters….I think the Republican Convention has been about catharsis for people sick of […]

I have always been better at posting when we are on the open road, versus when we are staying with friends. When being hosted, there’s usually so much to do that it’s easy to lose track of the “work”. Scott and I have been staying with Tristan for about a week now and we’ve built […]

Over the last couple of days, I have been passively paying attention to some of the civil rights issues surrounding the Democratic Convention. While there seemed to be a number of troubling situations, none rose to the level of setting me off.
A Few Examples:
* Many police officers not wearing any type of […]

One of the big appeals of owning a motorcycle, especially a Harley, is that loud, chugging noise that the engine makes when you rev it up. People actually modify their bikes to make them noisier.
I can not stand that shit. There’s nothing wrong wth enjoying the sound of your machine, but I just can’t understand […]

Speaking of our traffic, every once in a while Scott and I hear from friends about someone who follows the blog who we never would have expected. Every time we hear that someone’s cousin or a person we haven’t talked to in 5 years is reading we get really excited. So I just want to […]

Was looking through the site stats today and noticed two things. The first was that our site traffic is much higher than usual. Since the “usual” is random search engine crawlers and automated bots, the increase must mean that real humans are now reading- yay!
Of course, we have to take the good with the bad. […]