Horse Pens 40 is a 40-acre nature park located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains near the town of Steele, St. Clair County. It is owned by a man who has become a dear friend of the family we

After a long trip through the Grand Canyon, we headed north to the Sierra Nevada mountains, past Mono Lake, and into Yosemite National Park. We were greeted with the majesty that pictures can really do

I few years back, a couple friends and I took a long trip out west. While in a Arizona, we made quick detour to that big old ditch made by the Colorado River. You may have heard it referred to as the Grand

After my opening set in April of 2008, I was sitting in the green room with Lorin (Bassnectar) before he went on stage. At the time, he was my favorite artist and I really believed that he was going to

For over a decade, I have regularly taken trips to what I like to call the "Land of the Gnomes." Here in this pristine mountain landscape I've made many friends and fell in love with strangers

We host a community Fire Jam monthly here in Birmingham for people from all walks of life who like music and 🔥 🔥 FIRE 🔥 🔥. It happens on the second Wednesday of every month outside at Avondale Brewery

Traveling is an important part of my life. It's the great escape into the unknown (both inner and outer). It's my opinion that "culture shock" is the movie of the mind. In route we learn the

My time isn't measured in minutes, hours, or even years. Music has always acted as monuments of experience in my life in which I refer to. Recalling when and where I was as a song plays is just instinct

Thoughts streaming through my mind as I leave Salt Lake City. I'm trying to consciously remember and imprint memories as images, smells, sounds, ideas, feelings, etc into my psyche. Travel is therapeutic

SPACEX launched the Earth's most powerful rocket on Tuesday. Elon Musk loaded the rocket with his own Tesla car and dummy driver. The journey is being filmed for the whole world to see. Musk is working

"The west is the best.....the west is the besssssst." I could hear Jim Morrison's voice in my head radio as we pulled into the 4,200 mile high city. With both my ears and eyes popping, I gazed

Today we left the ranch we're are staying in and explored Zion National Park on our TRIP through the western desert. But first, good morning Kollob Canyon! (This is directly across from our ranch house.)

Today, my good pal and I rode the snake through the desert on an explorers vision quest. With camera and manna in hand, we ventured from Arizona into Utah. Here, I see a woman kneeling in 🙏🏼 prayer.

Today we made our way into a crack in the Earth's crust in Navajo nation near Page, Arizona. We were the only two guys in there and we took some photos. The colors inside this slot Canyon around 3pm made

Last May, I hurt my back while falling from stack of beach chairs. I couldn't stand. I couldn't walk. If it wasn't for my friend Scott carrying me to the car, I wouldn't have made it home. Later that evening,

Picture credit: snake "When the serpent appears, his head is ten feet long and five feet wide. He has one red eye and one green eye. He's deadly and he's seven miles long. As he moves -- on his scales

We are surrounded by distractions. Our daily lives are inundated with marketing campaigns marketing people who are marketing themselves through devices and platforms alike. I realize the irony of posting

We beg to disagree! Sweet Science Radio is a specialty electronic music segment of Birmingham Mountain Radio every Sat night at 10PM CST on 107.3 FM (BHM)& 97.5FM (Tuscaloosa) hosted by LeeJ and friends.

Spring 2016 My son asked me to come with him through the backyard fence. I was honored to be chosen. This is a picture of my son and his pal after they took me down to their super special secret sitting

Last week a few friends and I had an idea. The temperature here in BHM got down to single digits. We decided to use our social media to gather donated supplies and make backpacks for the homeless in our