The original travel options included Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Greece, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, and Scandinavia. However, we opted for something more unusual… a road trip through middle America.

On Monday morning we set forth from Dallas on an exploration of parts of northeastern Texas, northern Arkansas, the entertainment Mecca of Branson, Missouri, Tenneesse, and ultimately the Atlanta area of Georgia. None of us has previously spent any real amount of time in these states, so we hope to see and learn all sorts of different things.

Here’s our itinerary:

• August 15-17 – Dallas, Texas
• August 17-18 – Texarkana, Texas
• August 18-19 – Fort Smith, Arkansas
• August 19-26 – Branson, Missouri
• August 26-28 – Little Rock, Arkansas
• August 28-31 – Memphis, Tennessee
• August 31 – September 4 – Nashville, Tennessee
• September 4-6 – Chattanooga, Tennessee
• September 6-8 – Braselton, Georgia
• September 8-12 – Atlanta (Buckhead), Georgia

If any of you reading this are in any of these areas, or en route between these places and have time to show us cool and interesting things around your neck of the woods, please let us know. We’d be happy to reciprocate with a meal at a restaurant you’d recommend.