he's a writer. she's an entrepreneur. they bought a trailer.
Things fell apart for the first time in Alabama. Looking back, it was a pretty minor tragedy. But for two newly minted roadies with a year’s worth of trailer renovations still fresh on our minds — it felt like a swift kick between the ribs.
Read MoreA state best known as the home of Joe Biden, a tax haven for U.S. corporations, and the first state in the U.S. Truth be told, we almost forgot about Delaware. In the end we were so captivated by the tiny state, that we decided to compile a short list of things to do for those of you who are less familiar with the charms of Delaware.
Read MoreI could have written about West Virginia from 30 different angles, but in the end, I focused on two state treasures: pepperoni rolls, and West Virginia short story writer Breece D'J Pancake.
Read MoreIt seemed like a good way to kill two birds with one stone: make sure the trailer was road-ready and running on all cylinders, and finally give the Western Hemisphere's largest man-made forest its due.
Read MoreEarlier this week, we had a chance to chat with radio DJ Ritch Cassidy over at 93.3 The Wolf. Ritch caught a replay of our HGTV Tiny House Hunters episode and wanted to get in touch to chat about how we're surviving on the road so far.
Read MoreAs a Nebraskan, D.C. and much of the east coast seems ancient. It's not an absurd statement given that our home state is a good 100 years younger than most cities up and down the Eastern seaboard. In D.C., it's hard to escape history. In one afternoon we toured all of the National Mall with my 75-year-old grandmother and we weren't even hustling.
Read More"Hey! This is a state park. You don't litter in state parks. You litter in Charlotte, but not a state park."
Read MoreIn Carson's fourth installment for USA Today, he shared a somewhat embarrassing story involving me and our first trip to Asheville.
Read MoreCarson recently shared a recap of our time in Tennessee, so it's only fitting that we follow up on his promise of further explaining the famous Peabody Duck March.
Read MoreThe Duckmaster. The National Civil Rights Museum. Prince's Hot Fried Chicken. The "Birthplace of Rock N' Roll." Pulled pork nachos, and much much more. Tennessee, you don't know when to quit (and we hope you never do).
Read MoreWhen USA TODAY greenlit my story on Savannah, GA, I stared at my cursor for two days before writing a single word, thinking about Spanish Moss.
Read MoreIf a couple is brutally murdered in the woods, and nobody is around to hear their screams, do they really make a sound at all?
Read MoreWatch our episode of HGTV's Tiny House Hunters on Monday, March 28!
Read MoreFor his first official Local Color XC interview, Carson met up with author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Philip Caputo at the Wagon Wheel Saloon in Patagonia, AZ.
Read MoreFor his second "Road Trip USA" installment for USA TODAY, Carson chose to write about our experience in Port Arthur, a city that produces nearly a million barrels of crude oil a day and yet, somehow, shows no signs of prosperity.
Read MoreOur first stop was to the Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone, once a hangout for writers like Hemingway, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams. On New Years Eve, it played host to hundreds of drunk Southerners, young and old, overdressed and hardly dressed, many of them wearing masquerade ball masks. A smooth jazz band played in the corner.
Read MoreA gang of wild javelinas scurried past the headlights, three or four reds (baby javelinas) bringing up the rear. It set the right tone for our Christmas week in West Texas, marked by an abundance of wildlife, gluttony and a spirit of adventure.
Read MoreMy mom and I agreed that she would visit while Carson was away on his trip. I could have certainly stayed by myself in Elsie for the five days he was gone. But we'd had a rough month, and when she offered to come I felt relieved.
Read MoreLocal Color XC featured in the USA Today travel section!
Read MoreThe landscape seemed to calm itself as we drove east, heart rate settling down. The scrubby and scaly silhouettes of the Patagonia and Santa Rita mountains gave way to long, flat valleys punctuated now and then by a single hill or bluff.
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