Ridiculously random motorcycle tour

Peter Farago's Journey from Oradea to America.

Proust inspires the author to contemplate Knoxville's architecture. Of all things.

Pet peeves are pervasive, pernicious and predictable. Time to share.

London Fashion week freed the nipple. Again. Still. Why?

The Wandering Jew is a Marble City persona non grata already? Go figure.

Daphne Farago (not shown) was a "serious" art collector. My mother spent much of her adult life – and the lion’s share of the family...

The Wandering Jew wonders about wandering. The open road's calling and he must go.

LGTB stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual. The sexual preferences associated with each letter seem pretty straightforward...

The Wandering Jew finds a home in Knoxville, Tennessee

The 2024 Smokey Mountain Jeep get-together was huge, and duck-intensive.

Dollywood is 15 miles and a world away from Townsend, Tennessee. Guiding Fritz on the twisting mountain pass separating Townsend...

Back in the day, my friend Josh set me straight about hotel check-in procedure. “The room they give you? It’s only their first offer....

Making the 250-mile run from Louisville to Knoxville was like huffing nitrous in a dentist's chair. In other words, it was...

I thought I had a hangover. A logical enough assumption. After all... I’d had a few tequilas the night before. More than the Helium...

The Ridiculously Random Motorcycle Tour has one rule. No capes! I mean, no highways! A rule I broke blasting from Cincinnati to mid-Ohio...

I woke up to a rainbow over Charleston. After exploring the city's western side, I can assure you there’s no pot of gold at its end....

Proteins are the building blocks of life. They catalyze biochemical reactions and facilitate the body's overall functioning. A lemon? Not...

"Do you believe in God? Do you believe in fate? Do you surrender yourself to fate? Do you surrender yourself to God?" “You don’t talk...

Staring up at the Kenmore House’s masterful plaster ceiling, it’s hard to reconcile its astounding beauty and craftsmanship with the 160...

I remember the moment as if it was 40 years ago (because it was). My five-year-old nephew squinted, peered into my eyes and said “you’re...

An Italian restaurant called Chateau? Maybe it’s intentional irony. Chosen by kind of person who calls a French bulldog Luigi – just to...

I'm growing a beard, but I still use Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." I...

I’m a month-and-a-half into my Ridiculously Random Motorcycle Tour, facing a momentous milestone: closing on my condo. If all goes...

The first few miles of the Mount Washington Auto Road were easy like Sunday morning. Guiding Fritz through the verdant forest at the base...

Rocking and rolling on the ferry out of Vinalhaven, Fritz and I decided it was time to get high. So I set his six-cylinder sails for...

My eldest brother's house in Vinalhaven is no vinyl haven. There are no LP's in attendance. In fact, there's no music system in his...

I met an old lover on the street today (not shown). By old, I mean the same age as me. By lover, I mean a woman with whom I got jiggy a...

Our country's coastal elites see middle America as "the great flyover." Barack Obama spoke for millions when he declared that small town...

If Parkersberg is known for anything, it's the jumping off point for tourists visiting Blennerhassett Island. The Ohio River site of a...

It takes some skill to spend four days in Lexington, Kentucky without visiting anything horse-related. Turns out I have that skill. In my...

TTAE reader Scott grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. When he found out I was headed for the Bluegrass State, he hooked me up with his Henry...

"Sorry to hear about your father passing," the caller announced, in a goulash-thick Hungarian accent. "Did you grow up with him?" I...

Why would anyone nickname a sports team "the Voles"? Voles are voracious little bastards. The bane of many a gardener's life. Oh wait....

I recently watched a documentary asserting that Neanderthals were smarter than we thought. I just watched a movie that convinced me...

People compare motorcycling down a twisting road to riding a roller coaster. Nope. While the combination of G-forces is vaguely similar,...

You heard the old joke? A democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. Which is why America is not a democracy. The...

By the time you read this, Fritz and I will have left Boone, North Carolina. We'll be sashaying down The Blue Ridge Parkway. Our happy...

An peripatetic (not to say priapic) traveler may have noticed that several states have blocked access to Pornhub. Instead of thumbnails...