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Free Things To Do In St. Louis (According To A Local)

St. Louis is hands-down one of the best places to visit in the midwest if you're looking for fun and affordable things to do...

First Visit To Washington DC: An Ultimate How-To-Guide

Like a lot of people, I wasn't sure about what to know for my first visit to Washington DC. A trip to the nation's...

Swingers In The Villages? Here’s What I Found

The Villages is a massive retirement community in Florida that is constantly battling wild rumors and myths. One of the biggest rumors to take...

Five Quirky Places To Sleep In Iowa

Sometimes you just need to try something a little bit different, unique, or even wacky when road trippin' across the country.  One of the...

Dirty Sounding American Towns

Here are some of the dirtiest sounding town names in America.   Yes, these are all legit towns.  Some are more unfortunate than others. They may...

Life On The Road In 2017

At the end of each year, I take some time to look back and reflect on all of the things I've experienced.  As usual,...

Things I Learned On The Road In 2016

  Dubuqe, Iowa has the shortest and steepest railroad in the world. Kansas is less "flat" than Florida. The greatest public green space in...

How Pickleball Saved My Life

This article was originally featured in Pickleball Magazine. For most of my life I've been somewhere in the spotlight.  I started doing ads on the...

Naples Bet On Pickleball Pays Off

Propped up against the door of my suite at Bellasera Hotel, the local newspaper has "Pickleball Tourney Worth Millions" splashed across its front page...

Joplin Still Healing Five Years Later

Bringing up the 2011 tornado that tore apart this southern Missouri town brought visible emotion to residents I met during a recent stop in...

Hanging Out With A Country Music Legend

Jerry Bradley sits a foot away from me, in an old waiting room chair from the RCA Records building on Music Row in Nashville. ...

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