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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Season 3 Part 11 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Platitudes

Once again, Bubba has a busy stretch of time and can't get the 'ole podcast recorded fast enough because holy moley Randy has been everywhere in the past week and a half.

We start this week's journey in New Mexico at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, which is over a mile and a half walk all underground and all beautiful. Make sure to find Randy's Facebook post on Travels With Randy for this one - amazing pics.

From there it's off to Guadalupe National Park in Texas and then down to Big Bend National Park in Texas, which borders the Rio Grande and the Mexican border. Randy then almost poops his pants in San Antonio right before he follows the Texas coast down to South Padre Island and then up and around the Texas border to Galveston, then Orange, Texas.

Then it's across the swampy west Louisiana landscape over to Baton Rouge and down to New Orleans for a wonderful dinner of....Italian food? (Facepalm). Randy finishes the week moving across the Gulf Coast into Alabama.

This area is a big memory for Bubba, who sold pictures on streetcorners with Scientologists all across the Nawlins area and over to Gulfport and Biloxi, and he fills Randy in on the experience.

Randy is Miami bound to watch a little baseball next week and we can't wait to catch up then.

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Season 3 Part 10 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Secret Wine Intelligence Officers And Aliens And Sand, Oh My!

So, it was a bad idea to wait 9 days between podcasts because Randy has had a crazy number of experiences in that time.

Randy first tells the tale of Bisbee, AZ and the unbelievably unlikely encounter with...a fan of the show? It's a story you've just got to hear and we cover it in detail.

Not to be outdone, Randy then spends the night at a winery run by a couple of US Ex-Military Foreign Intelligence Officers, and after a glass or two of wine, the stories begin to flow.

Then it's off to cross one of the last National Parks off Randy's list - White Sands, New Mexico. It's a place beyond description but luckily Randy is a pro photographer and has shared dozens of pictures of the park on our Facebook page.

After visiting a couple of small western towns, Ruidoso and Cloudcroft New Mexico, Randy then ventures into the Alien Capital of the USA, Roswell New Mexico. He buys Bubba a very interesting hat for his birthday ;)

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Season 3 Part 8 of the Travels With Randy Podcast is here!

Head East Old Man!

Listen - a man who wants to circle the entire country can't stay in one place forever, right?

So it's been a fun 10 days or so of home-basing in Quartzsite, AZ during the week and then heading on over to Phoenix for some baseball on the weekends for Randy. He watched several more Angel games and managed to get out and about, visiting some of the fascinating old mining towns-turned-t-shirt-souvenir-shop towns.

This round he focused on the old mining town of Globe, AZ and its' sister city Paris, AZ. No gold was found, however.

Now, it's time to pack up and wave goodbye to Quartzsite for the 'season' - Randy is headed east. He'll be spending some time in New Mexico finishing up his original goal all those podcasts ago of visiting every US National Park - the Big 63. He'll knock three of the four remaining ones off his list - White Sands, NM, Big Bend, TX, and Carlsbad Caverns, NM.

He'll then drive down to the Texas border and basically follow it all the way across Texas and hit Louisiana as he heads towards New Orleans.

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Season 3 Part 8 of the Travels With Randy Podcast is here!

Spring Training Is Upon Us

Baseball. Spring training. California Angels Spring Training in Phoenix. Randy is in Heaven.

That's right gang - spring training is finally here. As you know, Randy has several goals for this year of travelling: see National Parks, see his Angels play in as many different stadiums as he can, and visit every corner of the USA in Snuffy. To say Randy is excited about spring training is a bit of an understatement.

He did manage to visit Oatman, AZ earlier this week. Oatman is one of the many old towns littered across Route 66 that used to be a gold mining town but now sells mostly t-shirts. He put tons of pics of it up on our Facebook page.

Mostly, though, the week was filled with baseball. Randy drove over from his home base of Quartzsite, AZ to Phoenix for several days to watch his Angels play some spring ball. Once again, he took tons of pics - of actual humans this time - that he has uploaded to Facebook. You can just hear the excitement and joy in his voice as he describes the games.

The fellas also talk about several random topics like the border, credit cards and their insane rates, hotel points programs, and even a common scam to avoid. Randy then lays out th eplan for the next few weeks of travel.

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Season 3 Part 7 of the Travels With Randy Podcast is here!

Viva Las Vegas!

Worlds collide this week as Randy AND Bubba visit Las Vegas at the same time.

Before the visit, Randy spent more time at his Arizona based home, Quartzsite and had a lovely date with Snuffy for the Super Bowl. He also TRIED to visit a few Arizona landmarks but actually got snowed out. As a consolation he got to see the towns of Why, AZ and Ajo, AZ and a LOT of roadside memorials for fallen....somebody's.

After that, he headed to Vegas, where Bubba had flown to hang out with his son Connor for several days. Bubba had a fantastic time at the Sphere, where he and Connor watched the Postcard From Earth film and were just blown away. The next day Connor took him to his workplace where he met most of his co-workers and his boss and even got to visit their super cool warehouse that has been modernized with a robotic inventory system. It was stunning.

Then Randy pulled up with Snuffy and they headed to a fantastic dinner at Cleavers along with Connors roommate Ryan and ate some incredible food.

The next morning, Randy, Bubba, Connor, and one of Connors work associates went golfing at Bears Best Golf Course in Vegas, which is a beautiful course surrounded by 5 million dollar homes and views of all the surrounding bluffs. Randy and Bubba teamed up against Connor and Ryan and held firm until the back nine lol. Later that day Bubba and Connor went to a Desert Dogs lacrosse game while Randy and Connors roommate Ryan headed to the casino. They all met up at the casino later and played some craps and blackjack.

Saturday morning, everyone piled in Snuffy and headed to the Hoover Dam, which is a wonder of the engineering world. After that Randy headed out to Buckeye, AZ to get ready for spring training and Bubba flew back home.

It was a fantastic trip and we'll get lots of pics up on Facebook for you

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