http://www.scootutopia.com Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:08:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last weekend was in Joplin, MO, and I took several photos of the tornado devastation while I was down there. It occurred to me that I could use Google Maps Street View to see versions of these photos before the tornado, so I have created the following ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/06/joplin-before-after/ Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Waking up the next morning in Quincy we were finally able to see the Mississippi River view from our motel room, albeit shrouded in fog. We also got to see for the first time what Quincy looks like in daylight... Crossing the Mississippi River into Missouri... An old Drive-In near ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-6-epilogue/ Monday, November 15, 2010 Quincy, Illinois.   A town with a German heritage on the banks of the Mississippi River.   Population:  around 40-45 thousand.    Bar population:  Somewhere between 50 and 75 depending on who you ask.   (I estimate the number to be between 55 and 60 based on liquor license filings.)   ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-5-part-2-a-true-dive-bar-mecca-quincy-illinois/ Monday, November 15, 2010 Another early start.  Today would be the last barhopping day of the trip, and we knew it would also be the biggest.    Thankfully here in Terre Haute we had found another decent yet inexpensive place to stay, so we were well rested for what lay ahead. While B ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-5-part-1-crossing-illinois/ Sunday, November 14, 2010 Now that we were in Indiana and only needed to get as far as Terre Haute we could start slowing things down.   Sort of.   We elected to make only one stop in Evansville, but then stop in every town after that with a bar. #809: Deerhead Tavern 222 East ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-4-part-2-an-evening-in-diana/ Sunday, November 14, 2010 We checked out of our Manchester, TN motel, a very nice one just a few hundred yards from the previous night's last bar, and got on the road.   We had realized we were about an hour's drive further south than we had realized the night before, so ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-4-part-1-nashville-tennessee-and-hopkinsville-kentucky/ Saturday, November 13, 2010 As we headed north out of Atlanta we decided to stop and find 1 bar in Marietta.   But we decided this one exit too late so we had to settle for Kennesaw instead... #797: Bullfrogz 3655 Cherokee St NW Kennesaw, GA 30144 (678) 331-8470 [map] [web] We had intended to look for a ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-3-part-2-northern-georgia-and-south-central-tennessee/ 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 ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/02/day-3-atlanta-georgia/ 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 ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2011/01/day-2-macon-georgia/ 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, ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2010/12/a-round-of-beer-in-80-bars/