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Restaurant: Dean’s South of the Border

View from out back of Dean's South of the Border. Photo by me :)To say Dean’s South of the Border in Punta Gorda is a mexican restaurant doesot do it justice. While it does have great Mexican food, the shrimp fajitas are the bomb, they create all styles of food...

Restaurant: La Thai Uptown

Merlin Chauvin, Co-Owner/Exective Chef.Making my top 3 Thai restaurants, is La Thai Uptown in New Orleans, LA. Great food, superb upscale decor and ambience, and probably the friendliest and most adept staff I have seen at a restaurant, let alone a Thai place. And did...

Holiday Travel – Part II

Sharon and Nora sharing a Christmas moment at Aunt Glenda's house and also Lost Sole #431 found outside Dugan's Irish Pub in Brevard, NCI will start off part II by saying it was thankfully a lot less eventful than part I, but I still feel Ieed to deliver a part II.The...

Brewpub: Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company

This is the front of Devil's Backbone Brewing Company. Part of the Brew Ridge Trail. THE BREW RIDGE TRAIL - MORE BREWERIES THAN STOP LIGHTS. The Brew Ridge Trail celebrates the craft beer industry in Nelson and Albemarle Counties. The five breweries and two cideries...

Brewpub: BJ’s Brewpub, Culver City, CA

The outside of BJ's in Culver City, CAFresh of the plane in L.A. Kevin, Amy, Trish and I decided to stop for lunch at BJs Brewpub in, just a few miles from our hotel in Marina Del Ray.The restaurant combined my 2 of my favorite things. Fish Tacos and on-site fresh...

Hell’s Kitchen Quest

Lost Sole #426, found while participating in the "Santa Monica Road Rally", more like the daily rat race in L.A. And wouldn't you know it, a cop stopped and wanted to know what I was doing. Of all the crime going on in L.A., they take the time to stop...

Restaurant: Koko’s Pub, Baltimore, MD

They may use paper plates, but they do use glass for their pints at least!After visiting Baltimore many times and living in Florida I have tried quite a few crab cakes, butone have come close to the ones at Koko’s pub.Koko’s is somewhat of a...

24 hours of Griswald-esque “fun”

This is one of the only pics we took that day and what cracks me up is how much fun it looks like we had if you didnt know the back story about Sharons wet shoes drying to my right by the fire from crossing a river to see a tunnelWe woke up and got the Ark ready for...