When my wife and I were planning our wedding back in 1985, she found an ad in the back of a bride magazine advertising a place with honeymoon cabins in the mountains of North Carolina. This was the place we decided to spend our honeymoon. The place was called Mountain Brook and they had a …
Category Archives: Travel
Trip to Boston – 1995
On Saturday, February 4, 1995, a huge snowstorm hit Boston shutting down the airport. On Sunday, February 5, 1995, I flew out of Memphis to Boston for a week of training. We had no issue on the flight. It was when we got off the plane that the issues began. As we approached the baggage …
House Hunting Trip
I changed jobs in 1996 and moved to middle Tennessee. The town where we were moving was about 4 hours from our home in West Tennessee. We only had two children at the time, but our daughter was only 2 and our son wasn’t even a year old. We were going to spend a weekend …
Wardrobe Malfunction at the Original Texas Roadhouse
A couple of weeks ago, I was travelling back to Tennessee from Indiana. It was around 5 PM and we decided to stop and eat in Clarksville, Indiana which us just north of the river at Louisville. We hoped to let the rush hour traffic in Louisville clear before we went any further. We found …
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Haunted Hotel Dresser
I recently went on a business trip. The trip took me to a small town in Indiana where I go often. I stayed in the same hotel that I had been in during the previous trip. When I opened the door to my hotel room, I noticed that the top drawer of the dresser was …
Singing Karaoke in China
During one of the meals on my 2006 trip to China, I talked about music to some of the guys that we were visiting. They found out that I write and sing songs. I found out that some of our hosts were into karaoke. They thought that I would enjoy going to a karaoke bar. …
Street Confrontation in Hong Kong
In previous posts, I have talked about my weekend in Hong Kong in 2006. In addition to shopping for a Fake Rolex, I spent this weekend being attacked by monkeys and a handicapped boy. While we were still looking for a fake Rolex vendor, we were standing at an intersection next to the street market. The vendors had …
Riding the Star Ferry in Hong Kong
I have shared my story about being attacked by monkeys on Monkey Mountain during my 2006 trip to China. Later that day, we were visiting more places around Hong Kong. We needed to travel to the other side of the harbor, so we took the Star Ferry. My traveling companion Mike told me that this ferry is …
Shopping for a Fake Rolex in Hong Kong
Back 2006, I went on a two-week trip to China, with a side trip to Singapore. Before I went, I talked to several people who had taken this trip that mentioned buying fake Rolex watches in Hong Kong. I considered picking one up as a gift if I could get a good deal on one. …
Riding the Revolution at Libertyland
Libertyland was an amusement park with a patriotic theme located at the Mid-South Fairgrounds in Memphis. It was probably best known for the roller coaster called the Zippin Pippin in part because Elvis Presley declared it as his favorite ride. This ride was built at the Fairgounds around 1912, years before the amusement park opened …