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• Day 30, In Which I Carpetbag My Way Through South Carolina

  By Drew Gibson on August 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m not going to say South Carolina is still hung up on The Civil War, but when your state has a “Confederate Relic Room & Military History Museum” that’s about 95% Confederate Relics and actually occupies the ground floor of… Read More ›

• Days 28 & 29: I Visited Florida, So Can I Go Now? OKThanksBye

  By Drew Gibson on July 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Look…I’ve been to Disneyworld and my family went to Captiva Island for Spring Break when I was a kid and, yes, Resort Florida is lovely. And, from what I’ve heard (but won’t be experiencing, at least on this trip) Miami… Read More ›

• Day 27: When The Saints Go Marching In

  By Drew Gibson on July 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  New Orleans has to go down as a close runner-up to Las Vegas for the title of “City I Would Have Never Wanted To Leave If I Was Still Drinking.” That being said, I’ve very much enjoyed my time in… Read More ›

• Day 26: One Mississippi, Two Mississippi…Black Mississippi, White Mississippi…

  By Drew Gibson on July 28, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking, but Clarksdale, Mississippi and Oxford, Mississippi are separated by only 60 miles of highway. They each have populations of around 20,000 and have rich histories: Clarksdale as the birthplace of the… Read More ›

• Day 25: Ain’t Gonna Fool Me Again!

  By Drew Gibson on July 27, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library is on a public university (UT-Austin), is free with a suggested donation ($10 for an adult, which I gladly gave) and is monitored by friendly elderly people. The George W. Bush Presidential Library is… Read More ›

• Day 24: The People’s Republic of Austin

  By Drew Gibson on July 26, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  So, I apparently am a sucker for a good Presidential Library, as I hit up LBJ’s this afternoon to supplement my trip to Harry Truman’s Presidential Library a couple weeks ago. The old Shitkicker from Stonewall certainly had a better… Read More ›

• Day 23: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love New Mexico

  By Drew Gibson on July 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, out of the frying pan, into the fire. I’m finally out of the Southwest, but have landed smack dab in the middle of Texas. Here’s some pictures from my trip to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History… Read More ›

• Days 20 & 21: Sitting in the General Vicinity of The Bay

  By Drew Gibson on July 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Impressions of The Bay Area written in less than 5 minutes: 1.  Great burritos. 2. Pervasive essence of weed smoke. 3. Not many cops (I suspect they’re all in Oakland because, you know, black people) 4. Almost aggressively pan-ethnic. 5…. Read More ›

• Day 19: No Justice, No Peace in LA

  By Drew Gibson on July 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  This Saturday, the National Action Network organized over 100 rallies in as many cities to protest the unconscionable inaction of the State of Florida in allowing George Zimmerman to shoot an unarmed black teenager to death and receive no censure… Read More ›

• Days 15 & 16: Las Vegas is Spanish For “The Vegas”

  By Drew Gibson on July 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Most of my reflections on Vegas will be saved for the book, but I will give these three brief notes before we get to the holiday snaps. 1. I’m fairly sure that there is a lost postscript to The Inferno… Read More ›