Today's Flavor Creation Song of the Day

If there is one thing I enjoy as much as ice cream it is traveling - road tripping in particular. I enjoy eating local, listening to local radio, even mapping out the adventure in advance. This past week I flew south on family business and drove 1000 miles back up i95. I realize that not all of you may be familiar with what some call The Great Road.  i95 is the highway that goes the length of the American east coast and is the most traveled interstate highway in the country. On the northern half, you get to travel through great cities of Boston, New York, Philly, Baltimore, DC and Richmond. The southern half gives you a much more pastural view through southern Virginia, the Carolinas and into Georgia and Florida.

Most people I know hate being in the car for long periods of time. Given the chance, I would drive for hours soaking in the scenery, listening to music and stopping at my leisure to eat, sleep or check out something cool along the way. I have now done the i95 trip more than 25 times.

Over the past 20 years or so I have had the chance to spend quite a bit of time in Low Country of Georgia and the Carolinas. It is a beautiful place any time of year. I can never help but spend that time driving through the salt marshes listening to The Allman Brothers who come from the region. Other than the Everglades, there are few other places in the US that feature an extensive marsh system like this. Jessica is one of the Allman's bigger hits and well known on the BBC as the theme to Top Gear. I try to kick off every trip along the Marshes of Glynn with Jessica, as miles of amazing marshland fly by. It always gets me in the mood for the start of the trip north and the many miles of cotton fields, kudzu and signs for South of the Border until we hit the beginning of the Northeast Megapolis around Richmond.