Category Archives: T&A’s Big Adventure – Main Blog

Whenever you move into a new area, you will always deal with challenges.  Of course, for us city folk, there’s that challenge of finding the best restaurants and best liquor stores in your new home town.  But seriously, one of … Continue reading →

Well, to us in any case. Teresa and I decided we definitely need a second car. For one thing, the gas mileage on the Tundra is pretty brutal.  “Big Red” only gets 18 miles-per-gallon on the highway, and that’s downhill … Continue reading →

This is infuriating.  My favorite radio station is under attack again: Radio Paradise But this applies to other great independent radio stations on the net including another station I frequent: Groove Salad More info here: Save Our Internet Radio Time … Continue reading →

You guys in Atlanta have it easy with BellSouth.  The folks at Qwest are simply a bunch of idiots.  I signed up for paperless billing, but their online bills don’t list an address to send a payment!  It seems ridiculous, … Continue reading →

For some reason, they call the Arkansas River Valley (where Salida, Coaldale, and Cotopaxi are situated) the banana belt of Colorado. I submit the photos above as evidence to the contrary!  Note that in The Mountain Mail newspaper, Cotopaxi unofficially … Continue reading →

Whew…  We made it back to Colorado.  We left Birmingham, AL on Dec 28th.  That’s five nights and six days on the road, for what should have been a two night/3 day drive.  I’ll cover our trip in a little … Continue reading →

What am I doing celebrating New Years in Amarillo, Texas?  The answer is here.  Oh well.  We were lucky enough to find a hotel in Amarillo I suppose.  So much for getting to Colorado before New Years. Today we drove … Continue reading →

When we last left our heroes…  We were busy fixing up our travel trailer and getting to know the area.  In our last update, our trailer was naked.  But no more… Teresa put a skirt on her (plywood and insulation … Continue reading →

Well, ours didn’t… Teresa and I can’t get a Colorado Drivers license yet… for some reason, this state doesn’t think a passport AND a Georgia drivers license is enough to identify you.  Never mind that both can be checked for … Continue reading →