By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/24
Wine, food and celebrities – what more could you want? The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is like Spring Break for adults. We got to sample the creations from some of the best known chefs in the world! Tweet
Posted in Food, Videos | Tagged beach, Bobby Flay, celebrities, chef, chefs, Emeril, food, Food Network, fun, Giada, Guy Fieri, iron chef, Morimoto, Paula Deen, Rick Griffin, Sandi McKenna, South Beach, South Beach Wine and Food Festival, spring break, spring break for adults, Sunnny Anderson, wine |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/17
Shopping with Chef Hayley Nguyen in Orange County’s Little Saigon for ingredients to make her famous spring rolls. Tweet
Posted in Food, Recipes, Videos | Tagged California, Chef Hayley Nguyen, cooking, fish, food, herbs, Little Saigon, Orange County, recipe, Rick Griffin, Sandi McKenna, spring rolls, Vietnamese |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/14
We got to visit with some of the Hottest People on the Planet at Zest Fest in Irving, Texas. Tweet
Posted in Food, Videos | Tagged flaming, ghost chili, habanero, hot, Irving, Irving Texas, Pepper People, Rick Griffin, Sandi McKenna, spicy, Texas, Zest Fest |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/14
We visited The Catch, just across from Angels stadium in Anaheim, California where Rick witnessed the making of the famous “OMG” – an enormous 8lb cheeseburger! Tweet
Posted in Food, Recipes, Videos | Tagged 8lb, Anaheim, appetite, California, cheeseburger, enormous, food, hamburger, midlife road trip, OMG, Orange County, the Catch |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/14
Midlife Road Trip experiences the fine line between pleasure an pain at Zest Fest in Irving, Texas where Rick enters Intensity Academy’s “Hot Lolly Lick-a-thon”, a tongue torturing contest involving the hottest lollipop on the planet. Can you say “OUCH!” ? Tweet
Posted in Food, Videos | Tagged festival, food, fun lick-a-thon, ghost chili, habarner, heato, hot, hot lolly, Intensity Academy, jalapeno, Michele Northrup, pain, Rick Griffin, Sandi McKenna, Scott Roberts, tongue torturing, Zest Fest |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/14
Make the place you stay a part of your adventure! Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas Speedway, Kodak |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/14
Sandi gets a bird’s eye view of Los Angeles while taking flying lessons. Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged air, airplane, airport, California, Dodger Stadium, Flying, flying lessons, Hollywood, long beach, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sandi McKenna, sunset flying, Sunset Tours |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/14
They’re cute, they’re cuddly and they’ll quack you up. The Famous Marching Peabody Ducks spend the day frolicking in the Orlando’s Peabody Hotel’s fountain. At 5:00 p.m. the Duckmaster escorts the ducks via red carpet, their own private elevator and much fanfare, back to their $100,000 Duck Palace. Each morning at 11:00 a.m. they ceremoniously [...]
Posted in Videos | Tagged duckmaster, Ducks, Emeril Lagasse, Joan Collins, Kevin Bacon, marcing, Molly Ringwald, Oprah Winfrey, Patrick Swayze, Paula Deen, peabody ducks, peabody h, peabody orlando, Peter Frampton, Queen Noor of Jordan, red carpet, Sandi McKenna |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/13
There’s no better way to kick off a midlife crisis than to jump out of an airplane! Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged adventure, skydive city, skydiving, zephyrhills |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2012/02/01
When visiting the Houmas House, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana our marvelous tour guide, Judy Whitney Davis, wrote and impromptu theme song for the Midlife Road Trip. We LOVE IT! Thanks Judy! Tweet
Posted in Blog, Videos | Tagged baton rouge, Houmas House, Judy Whitney Davis, louisiana, midlife road trip, music, theme, theme song |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2011/12/20
Happy Holidays from Santa and the cast and crew of Midlife Road Trip! Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged Bucket List, Christmas, Coffee, cookies, Happy Holidays, midlife road trip, Santa, Santa Claus |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2011/11/16
Sure there’s plenty to learn at the world’s largest blogger convention, but Rick and Sandi set off in search of the Best Swag at the Blog World Expo in Los Angeles. Who doesn’t like free stuff? Tweet
Posted in Videos | Tagged #BWELA, Blog World, convention, Ford, free stuff, iPad, midlife road trip, Rick Griffin, Sandi McKenna, swag, t-shirt, watchdottv |
By Midlife Road Trip on 2011/11/09
As self-proclaimed experts, we consider 40 to be the age where midlife begins… approximately. We don’t define midlife as the halfway point in life. Instead, we think of midlife as middle third of a long life. Midlifers are well beyond the growing pains of childhood and adolescence. They’ve rounded life’s learning curve in their 20s [...]
Posted in Blog, Videos | Tagged 40, 40th, birthday, celebrate, fun, humor, midlife, music, NUTS, party, peanuts, Sandi McKenna, Southwest, Southwest Airlines, video. Rick Griffin, welcome |
