Saturday, November 13, 2010
We woke up extra early and headed back over to Grandma’s house, for a breakfast of her famous sausage rolls.   I’d had them a few times before, but never in their pure form, directly from The Source.
After breakfast we said our goodbyes, then hit the road.  Our first destination of the day: Atlanta.

But we weren’t here to drink, we were here to do some early-morning shopping at IKEA.

I had never been in an IKEA before and never understood why so many people want to shop at one.  …

Friday, November 12, 2010
On Friday morning we woke up early for what we knew would be a long day.   We had mis-estimated the distance from Clarksville to Macon and found we had about 2 more hours of driving ahead of us than we planned, and we knew there would be a lot of traffic and a lot of work for us to do once we reached Macon.
The first thing we notice was that the air was hazy and smelled of smoke.   It was like this much of the way from …

A while back my friend B hit me up with a proposal.   He needed to pick up a piece of furniture for his wife from her grandmother’s house in Macon, Georgia.
“Why don’t you ride with me to go get it?” he asked.   “We can spend 2 days driving down there, then 4 days driving back doing what we love to do.”
Hmmm…  a six-day-long barhopping adventure?   How could I possibly say ‘no’ to that?!?
We set out on Veteran’s Day — November 11, 2010, for a six-day journey that would include our …

Thursday, November 11, 2010
We reached the military town of Clarksville, TN about an hour after dark — far later than we had intended. Our first order of business was to stop by a local Zaxby’s to drop off some gifts for the owner (a friend of B’s wife), which resulted in us getting free meals of delicious chicken strips. :) Thanks, Zaxby’s!

We checked into a motel (America’s Best Value Inn, a favorite chain of ours), dropped off our luggage, then headed out to make a …

Thursday, November 11, 2010
Seeing as how it was Veteran’s Day, we decided to seek out a town with a VFW to start off our fun. A quick Google search and a flip through my notes revealed O’Fallon, IL (as opposed to its Missouri counterpart) to be a good place to start.
We made our way to the town’s charming downtown, parked the van, and set out walking…

Our original plan was to visit only the VFW and then get back on the highway. But when we found the …

Last week one of my buddies shot me an email with a proposal.
He needed to visit a family member in Iowa that Saturday morning, and he had a wedding reception for an old college friend he wanted to go to in Bethany, MO, that same evening.   But he had nothing to do in-between.
“Want to ride up with me, ad we can got to a few bars in the afternoon?” he asked me.
“Sure thing!” I replied.
Little did we realize when we set out early on the morning of July 10, 2010 …