Someone was quite excited to take his son to Lake Anna last weekend. Nick and his buddies have been gathering there for more than 10 years, and I joined the crew in 2007. Since then there have been weddings and babies. But many things have remained the same. We jet ski and wake board. We […]
Previous road trip recaps: Lake Anna, VA and Asheville, NC and Huntsville, AL. When planning our road trip, Nick and I were both excited to discover that Harrisonburg was on our route home. We had originally planned to spend a night in Knoxville, but instead, we drove the full nine hours from Alabama to Virginia […]
Weeks ago when we started to plan our road trip south, I pictured myself as an uncomfortable pregnant woman — having to stop every hour to pee or to stretch; unable to sleep in strange beds; distressed from the heat and humidity. And while all of these things were true to some degree, I was […]
The previous 5 days have been busy ones. Take a look. Hours spent in the car: 15 Phone calls received during live TV pledge: 14 Tastes received in the kitchen of Le Jeune Chef: 5 Bowls of chocolate soup eaten: 1 Pumpkin spice lattes consumed: 3 Lattes spilled onto pants: 1 Homebrews bottled: 60 (thanks […]
The father of a friend lost his battle to cancer in February. The friend is one of our groomsmen, and Nick referred to his father as “Major Dad” since he was a teenager. I was fortunate to have met Mr. D a handful of times, and he lived up to the name. Two weeks ago […]