Posted from the Napoleon Hotel in Memphis, with my feet up and something cold from the cooler. Well, y’all. I made it halfway. This week’s roundup comes to you from Memphis, where I’m crashing for the night before the second half of the drive to Tulsa tomorrow morning. My friend Anna is meeting me for…
I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of the post). This past winter, in the middle of a…
I had an opportunity to spend a little bit of vacation time in Austin last month. Although I was born in Dallas, I consider Austin my hometown; it’s where I went to high school and college and spent the most formative years of my life. Central Texas has always held a special place in my…
This isn’t a travel blog. I want to say that up front because the word “travel” carries some assumptions on the internet, and most of them aren’t what this section is. I don’t do destination guides. I don’t do “Top 10 Things to Do in [City].” I don’t do affiliate-loaded itineraries optimized for SEO. There…
