Portfolio

• City by the Sea: Swansboro, North Carolina
• Legends & Landscapes
• A Foodie Getaway to Columbus, Ohio

• A Walking Tour of Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Neighborhood
• 5 Reasons to Add Atlanta to Your Southern Road Trip
• Atlanta Guide

• A Guide to the Gateway Towns of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• What I Learned On a Trip to Disney World With My 85-Year-Old Grandmother
• Read my other CN Traveler stories here

• Issue #2: Scruffy City: The Knoxville Case for “Most Underrated City in America”
• Issue #3: Tennessee’s Ultimate Whiskey Trail Road Trip
• Issue #4: Fill ‘Em Up
• Read my other Fifty Grande stories here

• 12 Places to Follow in Blackbeard’s Footsteps
• These Bars Invented Your Favorite Classic Cocktails
• Southern Music and Nightlife Road Trip
• Read my other Fodor’s stories here

• Road Trip from Nashville on the Natchez Trace Parkway: Americana, History, and a Whole Lot of Music
• Read my other Frommer’s stories here

• Florida’s Backroads Juke Joint
• The Corpse Reviver’s Corpse Reviver
• The Christmas Legacy of Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Star
• Read my other Garden & Gun stories here

• Winter 2022: Did You Know? The Big Chicken
• Spring 2022: Campgrounds We Love- Gorgeous Stays
• Spring 2022: America the Beautiful- Laurel MS

• April 2022: The Ultimate Road Trip Along Alabama’s Mobile Bay

• The Women-Owned Shopping Guide to Savannah, Georgia
• In Cleveland, Ohio, Global Flavors Spice Up the Food Scene
• Read my other Here stories here

• Want to Learn the Art of the Bamboo Fly Rod? Seek Out a Man Named Bill Oyster (republished in Yahoo)
• The World-Class Alabama Golf Course Where Greenskeepers Go to Sample New Products
• Read my other InsideHook stories here

• 10 delightful detours along the Natchez Trace Parkway
• 12 great things to do in Macon, Georgia: celebrate this music-loving small town
• Read my other Lonely Planet stories here

• Underrated Destinations to Add to Your Southern Road Trip (republished in MSN)
• Maximizing Points and Miles on a Trip to Savannah, Georgia
• Read my other The Points Guy stories here

• This Moonshine Loving Newspaper Editor is Living His Best Life
• A Political Truce Over Fried Chicken Biscuits
• Read my other Roads & Kingdoms stories here

• Georgia’s mostly-abandoned Central State Hospital
• The Secret City: Touring a rural Tennessee community that went from making atomic bombs to rocket fuel
• Read my other Roadtrippers stories here

• Going On Tour, Macon, Georgia
• Delta Dawn, Cleveland, Mississippi
• Lights, Camera, Weekend, Wilmington, North Carolina
• When in Rome, Rome, Georgia
• Time to Unwine-d, Helen, Georgia
• Tally Ho, Tallahassee, Florida
• Sleeping in History, Ponte Vedra, Florida

• Annie Lee Cooper Played a Key Role in Helping Black Americans Win the Right to Vote
• Why Williamsburg at Christmas is So Magical, Especially Now
• Read my other Southern Living stories here

• The Best Places to Eat in the World’s Busiest Airport
• These Eco-Tours Let You Save Baby Sea Turtles, Restore Coral Reefs, and Eat Invasive Species
• Read my other Thrillist stories here

• Spirited Approach, Fall 2021

Other Publications

• London Evening Standard: Take 5: She Crab Soups in Charleston
• Southwest Georgia Living: Making a Name
• Sprudge: In Boone, Hatchet Combines Their Love Of Coffee And The Outdoors

• Everything you want to know about grits and where to try the best (republished in the Fort Myers News-Press and Naples Daily News
• Meet the Natchez chef who is teaching the origins of soul food
• Read my other 10Best stories here

• Little Free Libraries Helped Me “Meet” My New Neighbors During This Strange Year (featured in Southern Living)
• Read my other Apartment Therapy stories here

• 5 Unexpected Ways to Use Salvaged Wood in Your Decor
• In Search of the Perfect Photo Backdrop, These Designers Turned to Their Own Homes (translated into Spanish)
• Read my other Architectural Digest stories here

• The Original Social Distancers: The Bizarre Tales of America’s Modern-Day Hermits
• Notorious Prison Stories from America’s Most Infamous Cellblocks

• Is This Your Last Chance to ‘See Rock City’?

• The African American Hunter Behind Roosevelt’s ‘Teddy’s Bear’

• The Secret South Carolina ‘Monkey Farm’ That Helped Develop the Polio Vaccine
• In Coober Pedy Australia, Everyone Lives Down Under
• Read my other HowStuffWorks stories here

• How the Polio Epidemic of 1950 Gave Wytheville, Virginia, a ‘Summer Without Children’
• Who Was the Original ’Poster Child‘?
• Read my other Mental Floss stories here

• A New Song for Rabbit’s Motel