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I am fortunate enough to have a job that involves some travel. Some of the places I go are interesting, others, not so much. A recent trip to Nashville took me on a jaded trip down memory lane to a town I have dubbed my city of broken dreams. Things had changed since my last trip there ten years ago when I left small town Ohio with my acoustic guitar resting in…
Read moreDave Ramsey has it all wrong. It is not the credit card companies that are driving the American consumer further into debt, it’s the marketers who exploit rednecks into buying overpriced junk. NASCAR, Daytona Beach, WWE, and the Smoky Mountains. Drive down any of the main drags in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, or Sevierville – the main tourist areas of the Smoky Mountains – and you are accosted with one overpriced tourist gimmick…
Read moreDammit. I was tricked again. I hate it when it happens. I stumble across a local winery and have to stop and sample the goods. It’s a personal quest, really, to find domestic wines outside of the West Coast that are worth drinking. I have found a good many on my adventures but at times I stumble across a winery that focuses more on the sweat tea and Mountain Dew crowd than…
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