Articles from January 2010

Buyer’s remorse of another sort

Nearly every small Western town we stopped in on our road trip over the holidays had an “antique” store like this one. Aisles and aisles of old cookbooks, silverplate candlestick holders, broken toys, old military medals, crocheted table clothes.
We couldn’t help ourselves; we almost always stopped and poked around. We used restraint and made no [...]

The state of education

A ritual we quickly established on our road trip was for me to look up the next small town we were coming up to on my iPhone while he drove. I Wiki-ed dozens of tiny towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. More often than not we enjoyed the “facts” of town, most of [...]

Where we didn’t stay

We’re currently in the fantastic little town of Marfa, Texas on day thirteen of a rambling, meandering road trip. Over the next week we’re going to slowly make our way back to Los Angeles. Our antics and drinking experiences have been chronicled on our wine blog, Swirl Smell Slurp, and Twitter.
We’ve been trying to stay [...]