TWR Season 4 Episode 5 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Walk A Mile, Hug Somebody For 20 Seconds, And Contemplate The Future

It's another week in the glorious spectacle of the northeast for Randy.

The Berkshires and the Catskills continue to show off leaf-changing season for Randy, and as the leaves hit peak change, Randy hit peak sightseeing.  First he visits the famous Mystic Pizza II, then hunts down several lighthouses.

Bubba then decides to drill down on Randy's psyche a little bit and the pair have a very long conversation about Randy's seemingly strange ability to be alone all the time - why it DOESN'T bother him and what in his past made that so.  

The fellas also agree to walk a mile this week AND to hug somebody for 20 seconds.   Next week they will discuss the next 25 years and how things will change for everyone.

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TWR Season 4 Episode 4 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

The Berkshires Seemed Dream-Like.....

Four weeks in a row! We are on a roll, people!

Randy continues his short stay in the middle of tree-turning country, bouncing around between NY and MA and Vermont and New Hampshire.   The Berkshires are putting on an all-out color bomb display of peak leaf turning now and it's probably the most beautiful place in the country right now.

The fellas have a good long chat about the hurricanes in NC and FL and then turn the discussion towards the meaning of life when you realize there's not a ton of time left.  They talk about Randy's ancestors, who migrated all the way across the country over a hundred years and what it might have taken back then to pick up and move a family from a place and why they'd do it.  Randy almost visits Canada even! Lol. 

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TWR Season 4 Episode 3 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Learn, Live, Love

Three weeks in a row! We are on a roll, people!

Randy has migrated to the Northeast for a week or so, landing in New Hampshire to spend his workweek.  The trees are def beginning to turn and nowhere near peak yet.

Randy hit a BIG milestone this week - he turned 65 years old.  He is now, officially, an Old Man.  As one does at his age, he's spent time reflecting on his life and a bit melancholy that Winter is coming.  He and Bubba decide that his life falls into 3 time periods:

1. Learn: The first 30 years or so he just figured out how to do everything
2. Live: The second 30 years or so he spent living his life - work, marriage, fatherhood, more work
3. Love: The last 30 years will be spent on just doing things or seeing people that Randy loves

The fellas have a long talk about age, kids, the pros and cons of college, the looming US Port strike, and the disastrous Helene hurricane aftermath in the Appalachians.

Really, this week is just another good old natter between buddies.  Enjoy it!

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Season 4 Episode 2 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Lake Gitche Gumee - Ohio - Following Our Ancestors

This week picks up exactly a week after last week! Yay, consistency - we did it! Lol.

Randy migrated from northern Wisconsin across the upper penninsula of Michigan and down to Kentucky for a few days and is now in Ohio on the road towards Vermont.

The fellas have a long conversation about tracing Randys ancestors back to his great great great grandfather and even further back to his ancestry landing in the US for the first time.  Rancy's ancestors are scattered throughout middle America from Iowa to Illinois to Ohio to Massachusetts and Randy is on a mission to validate some of his theories about how his ancestors did that.  

They chat about the great lakes and just how different and massive they are, especially with the Erie Canal added in.  Bubba hums parts of the The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to come up with Gitche Gumee lol.

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Season 4 Episode 1 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Randy Visits His 55th National Park - Voyageurs National Park In Minnesota

After a couple of months of staying put, Randy couldn't take it anymore, fired up Snuffy, and hit the road again!

From home base in Cedro-Woolley, Washington, Randy traverses the northern United States to finally put the last pin in his hat and visits Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota.  We started this journey 5 years ago with the goal of visiting all 63 United States National Parks, and Randy made good on his word to finish the journey.   Voyageurs marks the 55th and final National Park in the lower 48 (and Hawaii).  Only 8 remain to visit, and they are ALL in Alaska. 

Season 4 will have Randy complete his Season 3 journey of visiting all corners of the United States but in reverse this time.  From here, he will head across the Great Lakes and settle in Maine, where he will then follow the spectacular fanfare of the fall turning leaves from Maine all the way down the Appalachians.  He'll then head on to Florida for more adventures TBA. 

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Season 3 Part 16 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

When Life Gives You Lemons

So we should all know by now that the more you plan out your life, the more life just smiles at you and starts hurling lemons.  Hopefully, they hit you in the head and knock some sense into you.

Randy's plan to drive Snuffy to the 4 corners of the USA hit a considerable snag several weeks ago.  As he was approaching the North Carolina Outer Banks area, he received a call from back home that his 92-year-old mother had had a stroke and was in the hospital.  Of course, he immediately headed to the nearest big city, found a safe storage place for Snuffy, and flew home.

Thus began a few weeks of being with Mom and getting her settled in to a new home where she could be more actively cared for.  Randy and his family got her settled in, made sure she was comfortable, and re-joined his adventure already in progress.   

So this week the fellas talk a lot about life, death, attitude, A.I. (?), health and wellness, and the comedy/tragedy that is US politics.

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Season 3 Part 15 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

The Carolina Coast.

After last week's fun Atlanta Braves adventure, Randy then drove back out to the coast and spent the week making his way north up the coast of Georgia into South Carolina and up the SC coast and finally arrived in Wilmington, NC to set up camp for the next week.

Early in the week Randy visited Cumberland Island to see the wild horses and the ruins of a giant Carnegie mansion that was over 100 years old.  He then headed up to Savannah and toured the city and headed out to Tybee Island for a visit.  From there it was a sprint up to Myrtle Beach and then into North Carolina to Southport.   Snuffy then got to ride on a ferry over to Fort Fischer as Randy visited the aquarium there (Sharks! Seahorses!), then landed up in Wilmington.  

Next up:  The Outer Banks.

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Season 3 Part 14 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

The Atlanta Braves Is A Dream Come True For Randy!

It's another very exciting baseball week for Randy!  He begins the week by watching his Angels play - and win - at Tampa Bay stadium.  He then somehow takes 4 days to drive the 7 hours to Atlanta because a very special treat awaits him there - Bubba!

So if you can't be totally cool then make sure you know someone who is totally cool - and that would be Bubba's friend Jill who just so happens to be the CFO of the Atlanta Braves.  Jill treated the boys to an incredible experience which included secret stadium entrances and unlimited free food and seats right behind home plate to watch the Braves play and beat the Rangers.  It was just an incredible experience.

After a long night of listening to Randy saw logs in the hotel room, the fellas split up the next day - Bubba headed back to Charlotte and Randy headed back out to the Georgia coast to continue his trip north via the coast.

They have a long conversation about dreams and Bubba challenges Randy to get tested for sleep apnea lol.

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Season 3 Part 13 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Farewell To The Keys And Hello Tampa

This week, the beauty and uniqueness of the Florida Keys really hits home for Randy and he decides to make them an annual stop.   Key West in particular is just magical, whether it's Hemmingway's house or watching the sunset from Mallory Square or having a tropical drink along Duvall Street.

Randy only reluctantly leaves Key West to travel back up through the Keys and over to Homewood, FL and then across the Everglades in search of alligators.  He finishes his week up at Tampa and springs for a hotel to get all cleaned up for the Angels vs Rays game the next day.

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Season 3 Part 12 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Seriously What Do Key Deer Look Like?

Another week - another weekly adventure for Randy.  This week it's time for some sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts because Randy is hitting every beach in Florida and then heading to Bubba's Mecca, Key West.

We last left Randy as he was hugging the Gulf and driving east through towns like Gulfport and Biloxi and Pascagoula.  This week, he continues his journey east and into the Sunshine State of Florida.  He crosses Florida to the east coast at Jacksonville, and then bravely drives ALL the way down A1A to Miami.   He drives on the beach at Daytona, almost drinks from the Fountain of Youth at St Augustine, and gets all excited to see a nude beach until he sees who is on it.  Cape Canaveral is next, followed by Miami and a baseball game between the Marlins and his beloved Angels.  He ends the week driving Snuffy through the Florida Keys, where he will hang out for several days before heading slowly back north to the Everglades.   

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