Skip & Gabi Yetter: writers, travelers, foodies and former US media executives share their adventures, experiences and stories from their round the world travels after they leave the treadmill for a world of adventure
Executive Inn and Suites, my foot. Having blasted out of New Orleans after a fun night, we struck out across western Louisiana, into a small stretch of Arkansas, and back into the flatlands of Mississippi as we changed course to a northwest trajec…
» Read moreThe road stretched before me, its gentle rise shouldered by forests of pines, and I sat up on my bike as I coasted along the Natchez Trace Parkway and stared ahead. The gentle purr of my freewheel was the only sound as I stopped pedaling and looke…
» Read moreThis morning, my mother asked me how the food had been on the road. I told her how lucky we’d been and that we hadn’t yet had a bad meal. Until today. It started when, a couple of hours after I chatted with her, we stopped at the Sonic Drive-in , …
» Read moreThe thing about driving on a high-speed Interstate like I 95 is that you get to go where you’re going fairly quickly. I guess that’s a good thing. You’d think, however, than in the spirit of the backroads travelers that went before us, you’d miss …
» Read moreThere are many things you learn when you’re on the road. One thing I learned today is to check the hotel room before you go to sleep to make sure the last person hasn’t set an alarm for some ungodly hour – say 6am – when a screeching cacophony of …
» Read more“There are two guys who keep me from doing whatever I want to do whenever I feel like it,” my buddy Dave used to tell me: “Mr. Time and Mr. Money.”This was but one of the many stock lines of Dave’s repertoire, most of which revolved around life, p…
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