Swan’s Roadtrip

Sep 9

2 min read

💕So… today I am still recovering my energy from my roadtrip August 22-September 5. That was a LONG roadtrip. North of Austin to Dallas, to Hot Springs, to Memphis, to Nashville to my Dinner with Dreamers media event, to Chapelgate, back to Nashville, to Memphis, to Angel Creek, to Little Rock, to Texarkana, to Fouke Monster Mart for fun, to Shreveport, to aimed for Teaque, Texas for Railroad museum, but lost Swan’s transmission in Henderson, to the rescue of Swan & me by towtruck, hauled back to north of Austin. Wow.

Along the way I visited: World Springs, Pappadeaux, Spa Castle, a Cotton Museum, the Arlington Hotel, Quapaw Bathhouse, the Memphis pyramid, Casey Jones Village, met Joel who was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stunt double and watched the reunion with my friends Kyle, founder of our media group I joined in 2017, and love, and Mark, Sylvester Stallone’s stunt double. Then I visited my former property Evins Mill dot com which I renamed Chapelgate when I owned it and which is the setting for my lifetime body of work (ChapelgateAngel dot com). On the way home I went to visit my new (bought in 2018) Ozarks offgrid property, Angel Creek. I have a book of 134+ Angel Creek true stories as of today. I’m on the verge of creating my physical book but they are also on my website. After my Ozarks land I drove over the Arkansas river in Little Rock, back past the Hot Springs exits, turned south in Texarkana, and stopped at my favorite Bigfoot museum in Fouke, Monster Mart. Then headed to Teague but made it to a towtruck which took Swan and me the last 219 miles. Oh I left out Loretta Lynn’s ranch and Casey Jones Country Store inside. Then yesterday my family blessed me with a themed Van Roadtrip Birthday!

So, my tired self now has a deadline of today I gave a teenager to brush hog my Ozarks land (I’m betting he doesn’t and I have to find another new guy) and I have a transmission failed Swan sitting in my driveway, isn’t life fun!!!

I guess today I’ll start creating a Table of Contents for my 800 stories on my website, split into several books.

Or maybe I’ll go back to sleep…

Written September 9, 2026 at 12:05 pm