http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog A Randall Louis Hamilton Project Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:19:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_4136" align="alignright" width="150" caption="The best gumbo I found so far in the French Quarter was at 441 Royal Street. If you have any suggestions for next time I visit please let me know in the comments section below"][/caption]Something I like to do when I visit a city, is find ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/new-orleans-gumbo-crawl/ [caption id="attachment_4039" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Sharon and Nora sharing a Christmas moment at Aunt Glenda's house and also Lost Sole #431 found outside Dugan's Irish Pub in Brevard, NC"][wp_geo_map][/caption]I will start off part II by saying it was thankfully a lot less eventful than part I, but I still feel I ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/holiday-travel-part-2/ 35.2334472 -82.734291935.2334472-82.7342919 [caption id="attachment_4129" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Looking Glass Falls just outside Brevard, N.C. in the Pisgah State Forest"][/caption]This part of the world is known as "Land of the Waterfalls". With a name like that how can you not want to visit and explore? We needed a stop halfway between Baltimore and Pensacola ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/destination-brevard-north-carolina/ 35.2334472 -82.734291935.2334472-82.7342919 [caption id="attachment_4127" align="alignright" width="300" caption="As you can see, the playground area of the museum is incredible!"][/caption]This museum is really big. The center piece being a large multi-level playground with rope bridges, ladders and tunnels. It looked like a lot of fun, but there were too many kids on it as ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/museum-port-discovery-museum-baltimore/ [caption id="attachment_4123" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Located in walkable downtown Chattanooga it is close to some great restaurants."][/caption] This is another Children's Museum that we got to visit. Now remember these reviews are from being with a shy 2-year-old and are not so much to be used as a review, but just to ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/museum-creative-discovery-museum-chattanooga-tn/ [caption id="attachment_4118" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This is the front of Devil\'s Backbone Brewing Company. Part of the Brew Ridge Trail. THE BREW RIDGE TRAIL - MORE BREWERIES THAN STOP LIGHTS. The Brew Ridge Trail celebrates the craft beer industry in Nelson and Albemarle Counties. The five breweries and two cideries that ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/brewpub-devils-backbone-brewing-company/ [caption id="attachment_3829" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This shoe, #430, was taken when my camera was still attached to my dashboard and we were sitting at light. The bottom photo was taken up on the mountain at Wintergreen Ski Resort in Virginia"][wp_geo_map][/caption]I took the title from a line in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/its-the-holidays-audrey-were-all-in-misery-part-1/ 34.44 -87.7534.44-87.75 [caption id="attachment_3829" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This shoe, Lost Sole #427, was found while visiting a Mennonite sorghum mill. Their cookies were the bomb. The photo below it was taken at the hoedown itself."][wp_geo_map][/caption]Sharon's aunt's partner's son's wedding was to be held outside Bowling Green, Kentucky in conjunction with their annual hoedown ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/a-breakdown-on-the-way-to-the-hoedown/ 36.729611 -86.36116336.729611-86.361163 [caption id="attachment_4102" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The outside of BJ\'s in Culver City, CA"][/caption]Fresh of the plane in L.A. Kevin, Amy, Trish and I decided to stop for lunch at BJs Brewpub in, just a few miles from our hotel in Marina Del Ray. The restaurant combined my 2 of my favorite things. ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/brewpub-bjs-brewpub-culver-city-ca/ [caption id="attachment_4094" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Lost Sole #426, found while participating in the "Santa Monica Road Rally", more like the daily rat race in L.A. And wouldn't you know it, a cop stopped and wanted to know what I was doing. Of all the crime going on in L.A., they take ... http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/hells-kitchen-quest-2/