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Peter Farago – An American Immigrant's Story
Peter Farago's Journey from Oradea to America.
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Oct 4, 20244 min read
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Remembrance of Things Past
Proust inspires the author to contemplate Knoxville's architecture. Of all things.
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Sep 28, 20244 min read
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Pet Peeves Revealed!
Pet peeves are pervasive, pernicious and predictable. Time to share.
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Sep 24, 20244 min read
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Free the Nipple!
London Fashion week freed the nipple. Again. Still. Why?
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Sep 20, 20245 min read
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Interlopers Are Us (Knoxville, Tennessee)
The Wandering Jew is a Marble City persona non grata already? Go figure.
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Sep 18, 20244 min read
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Art for Art’s Sake (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Daphne Farago (not shown) was a "serious" art collector. My mother spent much of her adult life – and the lion’s share of the family...
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Sep 16, 20245 min read
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Knock Knock Knockin’ on Knoxville’s Door
The Wandering Jew wonders about wandering. The open road's calling and he must go.
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Sep 6, 20245 min read
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LGBTQ Plus QIAAPODSA
LGTB stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual. The sexual preferences associated with each letter seem pretty straightforward...
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Aug 29, 20244 min read
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No Escape from Reality (Austin, Texas)
The Wandering Jew finds a home in Knoxville, Tennessee
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Aug 27, 20244 min read
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Jeep Trick (Townsend, Tennessee)
The 2024 Smokey Mountain Jeep get-together was huge, and duck-intensive.
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Aug 24, 20245 min read
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Hurray for (Dollywood, Tennessee)
Dollywood is 15 miles and a world away from Townsend, Tennessee. Guiding Fritz on the twisting mountain pass separating Townsend...
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Aug 23, 20246 min read
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Not for Sail (Townsend, Tennessee)
Back in the day, my friend Josh set me straight about hotel check-in procedure. “The room they give you? It’s only their first offer....
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Aug 19, 20244 min read
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The Flu Fighters (Ferguson, Kentucky)
Making the 250-mile run from Louisville to Knoxville was like huffing nitrous in a dentist's chair. In other words, it was...
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Aug 12, 20244 min read
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Inn Disposed (Indianapolis, OH)
I thought I had a hangover. A logical enough assumption. After all... I’d had a few tequilas the night before. More than the Helium...
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Aug 9, 20245 min read
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The Truth About Baruth (Mid-Ohio)
The Ridiculously Random Motorcycle Tour has one rule. No capes! I mean, no highways! A rule I broke blasting from Cincinnati to mid-Ohio...
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Aug 6, 20244 min read
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Almost Heaven? (Charleston, West Virginia)
I woke up to a rainbow over Charleston. After exploring the city's western side, I can assure you there’s no pot of gold at its end....
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Aug 1, 20243 min read
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More Words About Buildings and Food (Fayetteville, West Virginia)
Proteins are the building blocks of life. They catalyze biochemical reactions and facilitate the body's overall functioning. A lemon? Not...
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Jul 31, 20245 min read
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Life Is A Box of Chocolates (Lexington, Virginia)
"Do you believe in God? Do you believe in fate? Do you surrender yourself to fate? Do you surrender yourself to God?" “You don’t talk...
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Jul 28, 20246 min read
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One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor (Fredericksburg, VA)
Staring up at the Kenmore House’s masterful plaster ceiling, it’s hard to reconcile its astounding beauty and craftsmanship with the 160...
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Jul 25, 20244 min read
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Let’s Make Farago Great Again (Sturbridge Massachusetts)
I remember the moment as if it was 40 years ago (because it was). My five-year-old nephew squinted, peered into my eyes and said “you’re...
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Jul 20, 20244 min read
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American Food Sucks (Franklin, Massachusetts)
An Italian restaurant called Chateau? Maybe it’s intentional irony. Chosen by kind of person who calls a French bulldog Luigi – just to...
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Jul 18, 20245 min read
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The Trump Assassination Attempt Was a Conspiracy
I'm growing a beard, but I still use Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." I...
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Jul 15, 20244 min read
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Motorcyclist
I’m a month-and-a-half into my Ridiculously Random Motorcycle Tour, facing a momentous milestone: closing on my condo. If all goes...
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Jul 14, 20243 min read
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The Mount Washington Auto Road is Not For Pussies
The first few miles of the Mount Washington Auto Road were easy like Sunday morning. Guiding Fritz through the verdant forest at the base...
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Jul 13, 20243 min read
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Small Town, Big History (Gorham, New Hampshire)
Rocking and rolling on the ferry out of Vinalhaven, Fritz and I decided it was time to get high. So I set his six-cylinder sails for...
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Jul 11, 20243 min read
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Stone Cold Sober (Vinalhaven, Maine)
My eldest brother's house in Vinalhaven is no vinyl haven. There are no LP's in attendance. In fact, there's no music system in his...
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Jul 9, 20244 min read
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Ambushed! (Boston, Massachusetts)
I met an old lover on the street today (not shown). By old, I mean the same age as me. By lover, I mean a woman with whom I got jiggy a...
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Jul 6, 20244 min read
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Happy Independence Day! (Monticello, New York)
Our country's coastal elites see middle America as "the great flyover." Barack Obama spoke for millions when he declared that small town...
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Jul 4, 20243 min read
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Aaron Burr Schemed Here (Parkersburg, West Virginia)
If Parkersberg is known for anything, it's the jumping off point for tourists visiting Blennerhassett Island. The Ohio River site of a...
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Jul 3, 20244 min read
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The Ghosts of Slavery (Lexington, Kentucky)
It takes some skill to spend four days in Lexington, Kentucky without visiting anything horse-related. Turns out I have that skill. In my...
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Jul 2, 20244 min read
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Daniel Boone Was A Man (Lexington, Kentucky)
TTAE reader Scott grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. When he found out I was headed for the Bluegrass State, he hooked me up with his Henry...
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Jun 29, 20244 min read
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Tessa and Lee
"Sorry to hear about your father passing," the caller announced, in a goulash-thick Hungarian accent. "Did you grow up with him?" I...
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Jun 27, 20243 min read
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Any Volunteers? (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Why would anyone nickname a sports team "the Voles"? Voles are voracious little bastards. The bane of many a gardener's life. Oh wait....
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Jun 26, 20243 min read
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The Bikeriders - Movie Review
I recently watched a documentary asserting that Neanderthals were smarter than we thought. I just watched a movie that convinced me...
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Jun 25, 20243 min read
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Are We Having Fun Yet?
People compare motorcycling down a twisting road to riding a roller coaster. Nope. While the combination of G-forces is vaguely similar,...
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Jun 24, 20244 min read
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America is Not a Democracy
You heard the old joke? A democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. Which is why America is not a democracy. The...
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Jun 23, 20243 min read
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Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Boone, North Carolina)
By the time you read this, Fritz and I will have left Boone, North Carolina. We'll be sashaying down The Blue Ridge Parkway. Our happy...
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Jun 22, 20243 min read
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Pornhub Is Doing the Lord's Work!
An peripatetic (not to say priapic) traveler may have noticed that several states have blocked access to Pornhub. Instead of thumbnails...
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Jun 21, 20244 min read
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Juneteenth Sit-In (Greensboro, North Carolina)
In the summer of '81, tennis prodigy John McEnroe was unhappy with a line call at the genteel Wimbledon Tennis Tournament. YOU CANNOT BE...
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Jun 20, 20244 min read
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When Life Throws You Curves...
Last night, I dreamed I was back on The Blue Ridge Parkway. Fritz and I were flying through the corners like Pete "Maverick" Mitchell...
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Jun 18, 20244 min read
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A Shot to the Heart in Knoxville
There I was, sitting in Embers, a small but perfectly formed cigar lounge in Knoxville, Tennessee. I'm at the bar. Three stools. A...
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Jun 17, 20245 min read
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The Tail of the Dragon Is No Fun (Deal’s Gap, Tennessee)
"The Tail of the Dragon is not a difficult road to ride," the official website assures wary motorcyclists contemplating navigating its...
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Jun 16, 20243 min read
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Hunter Biden Is Joe Biden's Son
I said it before, I'll say it again: there's no way Hunter Biden should've gone to trial on federal gun charges. It was an open-and-shut...
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Jun 15, 20244 min read
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Nashville is Austin (Nashville, Tennessee)
"This city is too big for the both of us," I told Fritz, surveying Nashville's skyline. "It ain't so big," he replied, channeling Elvis....
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Jun 14, 20243 min read
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Housekeeping - The Wandering Jew Status Report
Triskedecaphobes beware: The Ridiculously Random Motorcycle Tour enters its thirteenth day tomorrow. What a short, strange trip it's...
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Jun 12, 20244 min read
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The Rice and Duck Capital of America (Stuttgart, Arkansas)
Polishing off a perfectly reasonable Wiener schnitzel à la Holstein at at the Steinhaus Keller in Hot Springs, I decided to go German....
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Jun 11, 20244 min read
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Hot Time in Hot Springs, Arkansas
"Why'd you buy me a drink?" I was sitting at the bar in the Ohio Club on the strip in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A small establishment famous...
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Jun 9, 20244 min read
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What’s Old is New (Branson Missouri)
I left Eureka Springs after two days. That's the longest I've gone without puffing a stogie in a [non-Rocky Patel] decade. Turns out the...
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Jun 8, 20244 min read
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Is James Bond Gay?
Over at The Guardian, novelist Charlie Higson asks you to choose whether A) James Bond has gone too woke; b) James Bond is a racist,...
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Jun 7, 20244 min read
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The Grateful Dead (Eureka Springs, Arkansas)
You want to know what Eureka Springs is like? No you don't. Trust me. You want to know what it was like. Once Upon A Time… Eureka Springs...
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Jun 6, 20244 min read
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The Truth about Us...
TTAE (The Truth About Everything) was started with the thought that all things truly do tie together, in a manner of speaking.
Rarely, it seems, are the thoughts that contend with the mainstream agenda prominently placed or even written anymore, and we wanted to fix that.
Hence, we created a catch-all environment that thrives on free speech, outside perspective, and healthy debate. After all, isn't that how we got here? Wanting to learn new things?
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