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The Saucy Chronicles
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Trailheads’ Hike Is A Walk In The Park; They Exercise Their Mouths At Sweet Auburn Barbecue.
In midtown Atlanta, there are 189 acres of beautiful parklands that, 200 years ago, was a forest––but you couldn’t see it for all the...
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Skeletal Crew Haunts Freedom Parkway Trail, Then Dodge Cops At Fox. Bros Bar-B-Q.
Three Trailheads assembled on the grounds of the 1864 Augustus Hurt Plantation, a beautiful plot of land that The Carter Presidential...
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Trailheads Meet A Bridge Troll, Battle Thrombosis, Eat At Jim ‘N Nick’s
Are bridge trolls real or just something you read about in fairy tales and see in movies like “Monty Python & The Holy Grail?" Trailheads...
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Trailheads Walk With Snakes And Run The Stroller Races Before Inhaling SmokehouseQ.
At long last, we almost assembled an entire team of Trailheads. However, George is babying a nasty bruise he received when gravity got...
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Righteous Trailheads Scale Mighty Kennesaw Mountain; Refuel With Righteous ‘Que.
Last week, only Trail Master Guy and Patrick hiked. It was a pathetic showing that warranted no written account. They took photos of each...
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Trailheads Battle Pollen & Attack The Hooch, Then Retreat To DAS BBQ For Provisions.
Springtime in Atlanta is not for the faint of lungs. The vegetation here wakes from its winter sleep with a vengeance, spitting pollen...
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Trailheads Hike, Duck A Police Dragnet, And Escape To City Barbecue.
As Gilda Radner’s character Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say on Saturday Night Live, “It’s always something—– if it’s not one thing,...
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Trail Master Substitute Loses The Trail But Finds The New Home Of Herb’s Rib Shack.
This week, the Trailheads were down two members. Steve was sick (maybe he had a touch of bubonic plague), and Trail Master Guy had a...
Patrick Scullin. Lightly Sauced by Roy Trimble.
Mar 15, 2024
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Trailheads Give AI The Writing Duties—Is Hiking Next? Barbecue Too?
This week found three of the Trailheads heading out to hike and three of them taking the day off. Though Patrick, George and Roy were...
Google Gemini with Foreword by Patrick & Roy
Mar 10, 2024
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Trailheads Bend Time & Save The Universe, Feast At DBA Barbecue.
Earth is a funny planet. In outer space, a traffic cop has a radar gun on our blue marble orbiting the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 48...
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Trailheads Defy Gravity, Get Airborne, And Land At Sam’s BBQ-1.
The impossible nearly happened when the Trailheads almost assembled a whole crew to hike, but at the last minute, Brad crapped out. His...
Patrick Scullin
Feb 24, 2024
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Trailheads Do An Intown Community Hike, Then Eat At Intown Community Barbecue––We're Confused Too.
It was déjà vu all over again as the only three Trailheads who hiked were Brad, Guy, and Roy, with Fio and Elvis keeping them...
Patrick Scullin & Roy Trimble
Feb 17, 2024
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Trailheads Flirt With The Law, Spread Cheer Along The Trail, Then Attend Art Show And Feast At Socks' Love Barbecue.
If cat herders were looking for a real challenge, they would try their hand at herding Trailheads. We are an elusive bunch. Last week,...
Roy Trimble. Sauced by Patrick Scullin
Feb 9, 2024
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Trailheads Avert Disaster On Gold Branch Trail, Then Destroy A Ton Of Smoked Meats At McDaniel’s QN2.
Last week, we punted on hiking due to wet weather (and our intense fear of falling and breaking our necks). This week, we scraped...
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Three Trailheads & Three Dogs Hike Civil War Battlefields, Then Attack Herb’s Rib Shack.
A week after the miracle of assembling a whole crew of six Trailheads, we only had three intrepid, dedicated hikers this week. With Fio,...
Patrick Scullin
Jan 19, 2024
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Trailheads Attack Boundary Waters Of The Hooch, Survive Dog Attack, Invade Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.
No, there wasn’t a blue moon, and Halley’s comet had not returned, but amazingly, all six Trailheads and their three canine companions...
Patrick Scullin
Jan 14, 2024
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Trailheads Hike Riverwalk ATL, Allegedly Break Laws, Hop Trains, Take Refuge at DAS BBQ.
Bad Boy Trailheads broke in the new year by (allegedly) breaking laws. We don’t know which ones or how many, and frankly, we don’t care....
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Trailheads Do A Billy Goat Hike, Get Experienced At Tonyo’s BBQ Experience.
Santa had come and gone, George and Steve were on the road celebrating family and a birthday, and Brad was taking family members to the...
Patrick Scullin. Lightly Sauced by Roy Trimble.
Dec 30, 2023
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Trailheads Lose Two Hikers But Gain a Dog And Pig Out At Ferley’s BBQ.
On Saturday, Brad and Barb hosted our annual Trailheads Holiday Bash, with all six of us and the beautiful women who somehow tolerate us....
Patrick Scullin
Dec 16, 2023
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Trailheads Cross New Bridge On Bowmans Island Trail, And Celebrate At Socks’ Love Barbecue.
The city slickers traveled north this week to just below the Buford Dam, which forms Lake Lanier, to hike Bowmans Island Trail. This is...
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