The wild and winding roads of western North Carolina zigzagged us across the parkway and into Tennessee (but more on Tennessee when we give it the full treatment in a couple months) and then into the more central part of the state where we stayed on Lake Norman. It’s been an incredible week and hereContinue reading “North Carolina in review”
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Holiday Gift Ideas
I am notoriously bad at holiday gift-giving. This is not to say that I am generally bad at gift-giving; it’s that I generally hate the holidays—namely the let’s keep the Christ in Capitalism part. I worked three soul-sucking years in retail and, folks, let me tell you: people are at their worst, most base selvesContinue reading “Holiday Gift Ideas”
Review: Blankets
We don’t use sleeping bags in our VW for a couple reasons—chiefly because they would be a pain in the ass. Our pop top is a Riviera style, which is not exactly spacious. Each night we crawl like John McClane into our sleeping quarters. Needing to negotiate a turn into a sleeping bag and aContinue reading “Review: Blankets”
Podcast: David
We had been staying in David’s driveway as we ventured toward Salem, Massachusetts. Even though he insisted he didn’t need to be interviewed, we decided otherwise. Over the breakfast he prepared for us, we had a little conversation with him about his time driving VWs.
Podcast: Jerry
Before we left on our 49 state tour in our bus, Adie, we met up with Jerry Shields, at a local coffee shop. He’s a man with an appreciation for the finer things in life. Just take a look at his bus, Velma (more pics on Instagram). She’s a keeper.
Happy Thanksgiving
A few years ago, my buddy, Dustin, invited me down to his family’s mountain home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It gave me a weekend to think things through and then make some major life changes. I’m always glad to come back to the mountain home and I’m thankful to have the friends I haveContinue reading “Happy Thanksgiving”
And then I fixed the wipers
Last we left off during the swing-through-home-to-say-hi-to-everyone portion of this venture, the wipers had gone out and we muscled our way back by sheer will and lots of luck (navigating between two lines of precipitation and nary a drop or flake). Sam at Dune Buggy Supply already had a motor on the way to us,Continue reading “And then I fixed the wipers”
Season 3 coming soon!
Join us this season for the New England leg of our journey as we chat with VW mechanics, brand new bus owners, veterans of the road, and even a true adventurer of epic proportions. Ten hot, fresh episodes will be dropping in the next 48 hours depending on your streaming service of choice.
Playlist: Ohio
Pit stop at home for a few days and we need some songs to keep things moving even while we’re cooling our heels.
Interstate thoughts
We made it back to our hometown of Dayton, Ohio. We left the coldness of southern Wisconsin early on Tuesday morning and drove straight through to Ohio in ten hours. And by straight through, I mean that we barreled south to avoid the rain and snow around Chicago. (Remember—no wipers.) Then we jumped on interstateContinue reading “Interstate thoughts”
On the Road with Adie 