Franklinsanity
A crank's musings on family, drink, travel, food & life
Category: D-Day+4
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730 pm – Floyd, VA. Sitting in a frankly rocking bar with HHW and two sleepy kids, as well as two freaked out animals. (Dogs don’t get out to bars much). Drinking another fine IPA. HHW is talking with a “retired” weed farmer. And am eating the best gyro I have ever had. Live music…
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10:13 PM, Cookeville, TN – Well, so we ran out of the unidentified sauvignon blanc. Fortunately, HHW also bought a sixer of … well, you can see the can. It basically just says IPA on it. Which works, at this stage. Now, the beer got a little warm in the traffic on the way here.…
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8:43 pm – Cookeville, TN. The only upside to mostly missing the MFDC’s (Mrs. MFDC, aka Danielle, joined us for lunch at a very cool Nashville lunch spot today): a re-route to a superbly-designed and built cabin in the woods. Craftsmanship here is incredible. Recycled, e.g., weathered and attractive wood, real metal fixtures and solid,…
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10:01 pm. Very disappointed that our one reader in Denmark apparently has not returned. Something is rotten there, methinks. Exit, pursued by a doodle.
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9:34 pm, Colby, Kansas – as I sit in our Sleep Inn (ha ha), where a friendly, cigarette-smoking biker held the door for me while I wrestled the collapsable dog bed through it, I am remembering our earlier-in-the-day awesome activities (referenced in the last post). Specifically, Awesome Wife got rid of the dogs for half…
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4:35 pm, somewhere outside Denver, on the way to somewhere inside Kansas. Here’s the thing about traffic: it’s always lame – but it’s especially lame when accompanied by an urban sprawl. It also doesn’t help that a giant earth mover that is towing some kind of super heavy metal box as it pounds dirt flat,…
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