Frozen Head State Park was our second-to-last TN state park. It has been on my list for a while (since it is a hiker’s state park). It has about 50 miles of hiking trails. We knocked out 20 miles of those while there. It also was towards the end of the Tennessee state park list …
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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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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. …
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 @ …
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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We started off our Spring Break going west. Our first stop was north of Memphis at Meeman Shelby Forest State Park. We explored the park on our bikes and had so much fun that we changed our entire plan to spend more time in (and around) this park and in Millington. It was the perfect …
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This was our first trip of the 2024 RV season with some winter camping at Fort Pillow Historic State Park in west TN. It is a Civil War encampment that was on the Mississippi River. We learned a little about it and hiked to a restored fortification. Winter camping sometimes works out with the weather …
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I had to work in Fort Worth, TX so I made Emily come with me (and also work…ha). All work and no play makes Deano a dull boy, however. We did some JFK-themed sightseeing at the JFK Memorial and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (in Dallas). Of course, I enjoyed the conspiracy theory …
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