After writing several posts about all the wonderful places I have dined, I fully expected my readers to assume that I don’t have a discerning palette. If that is the case, then I supposed I was blessed to have breakfast at a pretty average, run-of-the-mill restaurant. I knew the ride…
I had a rather interesting upbringing. Most people refer to me as a Yankee because of my accent and the fact that I was raised on the Westside of Detroit, but what most people don’t know is my mama was from Dora, Alabama and my dad from Trenton, Georgia. To…
For those who also listen to our Biker Chowdown Podcast on iTunes, you probably remember our tagline – “it’s not just about the food, but the adventures and people we meet along the way,” well sometimes it is all about the food. Saturday’s ride was uneventful in every other way…
Welcome to another edition of Biker Chowdown where it’s not just about the food, but the adventures and people we meet along the way. Every ride down the backroads of America has its own theme. I often set out with a specific goal, objective, or greasy dive in mind,…
It was a beautiful March morning leaving out from Nashville and heading to Lynville, TN. Four guys, four completely different styles of bikes, and a couple of hours enjoying the beautiful backroads of Tennessee. I always thought Soda Pop Junction was some fictitious town created for a 1950’s sitcom, but…
It is that time of year again when we start thinking about making next year a little better than this one. I typically start my goal setting around October with the hope of getting a little bit of a head start on the coming year. A good friend of mine…
I have never bought into the idea of “no regrets.” We all regret certain decisions we have made in our lives. You may call them learning experiences, or put some other spin on it, but unless you are a narcissistic, heartless, __________, you have some regrets. In reality regrets can…
The older I get the less tolerant I become. Never in the history of mankind has information been more readily available and I doubt if there has ever been an era (at least not in our country) where so much ignorance abounds. At a time when people can genuinely research…
Flashback Rome, about 2,000 years ago. Israel had to the bear the yoke of their iron-fisted rulers in Rome. The Roman Empire was fundamentally immoral, despotic, and the vassal states such as Israel had a heavy burden weighed on them through taxation and limited civil liberties. This was the cradle…
Teddy Roosevelt’s word ring as true today as the day he spoke them, but they have taken on new meaning for me as I look around at a world that is weak, soft, and so easily offended that we dare not look crosseyed at another without creating some objectionable offense.…