You Never Sausage a Place Like This: A Roadside Stop at South of the Border

Smiling boy standing beside a camel statue wearing a sombrero inside South of the Border gift shop in South Carolina

Day Two Started With a Warning Light Day Two of our Washington, D.C. road trip didn’t begin with neon. It began quietly — 6:19am, no alarm, just that restless travel energy humming under my ribs. I wrote the previous day’s journal entry while my son slept. Pancakes were my strategy for waking him. It worked. … Read more

The Chapel of Ease: Where Forgotten Friday Began

Ruins of the St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease on St. Helena Island, built in the 1740s from tabby and now standing abandoned beneath moss-covered trees.

It started with a name on a map. I was planning a road trip to Washington, D.C.—nothing spooky, nothing intentional. Just a long drive, a ten-year-old history buff in the passenger seat, and a tired driver trying to avoid highway hypnosis. To break up the drive, I used Roadtrippers to plot a few stops along … Read more