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Free concerts in Atlanta: Macklemore, Gym Class Heroes & more
One of the cool parts of Final Four weekend in Atlanta was a series of free concerts called The Big Dance. We saw Gym Class Heroes (Stereo Hearts, The Fighter) inside the Georgia Dome on Friday for a short concert before the collegiate all-star game. On Saturday, we saw Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Thrift Shop, Can’t Hold us, Same Love) then Ludacris (Act a Fool, How Low) at an outdoor venue near the arena. There were other performances we wanted to see — Zac Brown Band, Flo Rida, Muse, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Sting — but the timing didn’t work out since we were there to see Wichita State playing the…
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Pardon the interruption – I got lost in the wheat
Well it’s been a crazy start to April & I’ve yet to make a post this month. The more activity in my life (which means more blog material), the less time I have to actually blog! It has been a good learning experience, too, that it can be tough to blog while traveling. I did a decent job of sharing the trip on Facebook in real-time but I couldn’t go into much detail there. For those of you living in Lawrence, Kansas, you may not have noticed this great basketball tournament going on! The Wichita State Shockers made a historic run to make it to the Final Four so the past…
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Tripping: A safari museum in Kansas? Yep!
I’m starting to add some of my past published travel articles to my writing and photography portfolio. Here’s one that was published in The Wichita Eagle several years ago. I didn’t take photos, we used photographs the museum provided. Martin & Osa Johnson were unlikely world adventurers from southeast Kansas. The child-free couple explored a world that was inaccessible to so many in the 1920 and 1930s. Their photography, film and writing inspired and educated many who would never experience these places and people first-hand. Today, their material offers a glimpse at culture and wilderness that has since vanished. It’s very cool to see their influence in modern pop culture, too: a clothing line…
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MeLinda POV: you’re going the wrong way
First of all, thank you to Lee for writing the first guest post here at Next Door To Normal. I didn’t ask him to write it. In fact, we hadn’t talked about this mishap on our road trip until he asked me to read a draft of his post. I was saving that conversation for the next therapy session :-o It was interesting to know what was going through his mind and so I decided to share my point of view during this same portion of our 2,500-mile road trip from Kansas to Mexico and back. Lee is the driver on trips and I am the navigator. We settled into…
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Lee POV: you’re going the wrong way
Guest post by Lee – see MeLinda’s version of the same story on her post I am the driver. When we go on trips my job is to get behind the wheel and drive. So when we made our drive to Big Bend National Park I was behind the wheel for the whole drive. MeLinda’s job is navigator, restaurant locator and to sit there and look pretty. For those who know me I don’t have the greatest sense of direction but sooner or later I will find my way to the destination. MeLinda is my navigational security blanket and most times I shut down my brain when driving. When I’m…