It’s now been about two weeks since we actually returned from what ended up being a two-week road trip. The bags are long unpacked, laundry done, the nagging sense that we need to be somewhere! has long since faded. Our cat has returned to being largely indifferent to our presence, which is as it should … Continue reading
Tag Archives: life
Rain and Ravens
So I am sitting in a comfortable apartment overlooking the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, but today’s post is all about Arizona. Arizona is a state loosely affiliated with the United States of America. I say “loosely,” because they have done their best over the last few years to exempt themselves from every … Continue reading
OK, I Guess?
If you are ever looking for an apparently-vacant downtown area to shoot your next zombie thriller in, look no further than Oklahoma’s state capital, Oklahoma City! I report to you from this brightly-lit ghost town after a day’s worth of driving and sweating through the Midwest’s patented 95-degree weather with 95% humidity. I report to … Continue reading
Hittin’ the Roads
It is the story that a blog named “Rhoades to Madness” seemed destined to tell…and now it will. My girlfriend and I are leaving on a three-week road trip through the American west. We will travel down Historic Route 66, up the coastal highways, and camp in the shadow of Mount Rushmore. And whenever I … Continue reading
Hiatus From Madness
As of today, Rhoades to Madness will no longer update (or even try) on Monday-Wednesday-Friday. I will NOT be shutting down the blog, but it will only be updated on a whenever-I-feel-like-it schedule. There are a few factors behind this decision. The least important of them being that barely anyone reads this. My pageviews absolutely … Continue reading
Thirty-One
Another orbit of the sun is complete, so I thought I’d take a moment to bask in my own monumental greatness. Damn, I’m good. I mean, damn. Did you know the World’s Most Interesting Man once gave me a piggy-back ride? Did you know that when I visited President Obama, he stayed at the Hilton … Continue reading
State of the Madness
It was a year ago this day, this time, that I made my very first post on Rhoades to Madness. And here I am, 153 posts and 30,000 pageviews later, still chugging away. I haven’t always kept to my schedule, but in the end, I did end up averaging about three posts a week, just … Continue reading