Traveling Ken

What kind of ducks deserve to walk down a red carpet while getting hundreds of pictures taken and dozens of videos recorded of them in the process in Memphis? Those lucky enough to be a select Peabody Duck of course! But how do the ducks get selected and what exactly am I talking about? Random […]

Music City, Athens of the South, NashVegas, whatever you want to call it, there’s no denying that there is a lot of musical history in Nashville, TN. Artists of many genres have come from, or at least found a big stepping stone in Nashville. Random Fact: Nashville was granted the first FM radio license in […]

Imagine if your local Starbucks also doubled as a bar. Cool thought, huh? Well, if you ever spend a night in Louisville, I have that exact place for you! Vint is a coffee, tea, ale, and wine café. Though it may not be the first of its kind, it certainly does it better than any […]

Believe it or not, the worlds largest public library is in Chicago; the Harold Washington Library Center, which has a collection of over 2,000,000 books! Unfortunately I didn’t get to see the library, but I did get to see the laws of gravity broken! Keep reading to find out what all else I witnessed as […]

If you’ve ever seen the horror movie The Descent, you might be a little hesitant to drop down into a hole in the ground with some friends and venture deep into the caves ahead of you, especially if those caves are within the Appalachian Mountains (which is how The Descent starts, if you’ve never seen […]

  A Return To Unfamiliar Territory “Sweet Child O’Mine” plays just loudly enough over the commotion of the patrons at Henry’s Tavern on 16th Street in Denver to hear Axl Rose’s screaming vocals. The Eagles and Cowboys are tied at a touchdown in the 3rd quarter. A group of business men that were in front […]

While waiting for the traffic light to turn green, I looked to my right and watched as the police officer pried the bottle of booze from the drunkards hands. He laid there on the curb with his feet dangling into the street while the cop walked over and placed the evidence into a bag. I […]

My trip to Colorado was by train from Cleveland to Chicago to Denver. Then by car I saw the state from as far north as Fort Collins, all the way down to the 4-corners. What follows is a photo essay (my FIRST photo essay!!) of this journey which happened back in 2008. The pictures were […]

During the time of my visit in Las Vegas, the city held the 2 largest hotels in the world, along with another 26 of the top 50. Oddly enough, the #1 largest is not the one I thought it was. Frederick W. Smith, the founder and CEO of FedEx, saved his company by gambling in […]

“Photos taken by the International Space Station reveal that Las Vegas is the brightest city in the world as seen from space. If all the neon lights along the three mile strip were lined up, it would create a train of lights over 15,000 miles long.” What happens when a small town is created and […]