The Barkley Marathon is a secret 100-mile ultramarathon race at Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park each year. They do 5 20-mile loops (with 10,000+ feet of elevation gain per loop) within 60 hours. Very few humans have ever finished the race in its 38-year history. We tried to do 1 (one/uno) loop (1 fifth of …
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DeanoRolls has joined the upper 10% of YouTubers by passing 1,000 subscribers. I also just passed 250,000 views on my videos. I still have no clue why anyone would watch one of my videos. Regardless, the next stop is passing the most successful YouTuber of all time, Mr. Beast. Only 265 million more subscribers to …
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I visited The Art Institute of Chicago while in town for a concert. They have over 300,000 works of art. Here are my favorite 100!
It had been 23 years since my college roommate, Brent, and I had seen one of our favorite bands, ORBITAL. I know you’ve never heard of them. That doesn’t change the fact that they are the best in the game. We headed to Chicago to see 1 of 2 shows they did in the US. …
FINALE! I finally finished the road through our woods to connect our front and back pastures.
Max graduated from the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business this weekend. Arden graduated as well. So, they did it together! We are very proud of them both. I could have done without all the “3rd Saturday in October of our Junior year” references about the Vols win over Bama throughout the weekend’s ceremonies. …
We’ve been to Memphis before, but it has been a while! We met Preston for a Grizzlies game. I’m not a huge basketball fan but 1) it was fun and 2) I’ll use any excuse to eat at Rendezvous. We hit a few other Memphis favorites while in town (Beale Street, Bass Pro Shop @ …
Mother’s Day 2005 – A Dean Family Original Production The Dean Family’s original Mother’s Day production for the best Mom around. This was the original! It was so popular with audiences that the producers milked the franchise for many years with sequels (of varying production value). But this is where it all began! Happy Mother’s …
Our trip back home was cursed from the second we left the prior campground in Hot Springs, AR. The bad luck lasted all the way through our time at T.O. Fuller State Park in Memphis. We stayed at this state park while we explored around Memphis. We wound up cutting our losses to beat the …
We spent two days exploring Hot Spring National Park (in Hot Springs, AR). I was excited to go for a soak to heal all my ailments in the 4,000-year-old thermal spring waters. I did my soaking at the Buckstaff Bathhouse which opened in 1912 (and is the only bathhouse to continuously operate since then). It …
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