Back To My Hometown (Springfield, TN) Hunting The Bell Witch Somehow my travels led me back to my hometown, Springfield TN, for a long weekend. I decided while I was there I'd do a little Bell Witch hunting. I'd watch movies and read books to learn about her evil ways. Then I'd go to Adams, TN to visit some sites. I was going to find her! I had plans to look for her while floating down the Red River and in the Bell Witch Cave. She cursed my efforts, however, and brought terrible weather. So, all my plans were dashed/shut down. Nice move Bell Witch...I'll get you next time! You haven't heard the last from me!

Our Last TN State Park (Big Ridge SP) AND Max's Graduation Lots of stuff wrapped up on this weekend of RV'ing! We visited our last Tennessee State Park (Big Ridge State Park). With this last one we've visited all 58 Tennessee State Parks. We started RV'ing several years ago. It has been a lot of fun! This marks a BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goal) off my list. Each of our four kids have joined us along the way at various times (making it even more fun). Molly had never stayed with us overnight but she did on this trip. I made her run the stinky slinky (at the sewer dump station) just so she'd get the full RV experience. LOL. We were in town for Max's graduation from UT Knoxville. This is our fourth child's (and final) college graduation. We didn't do much at Big Ridge SP. It was our landing pad and we burned up the road with my parents going to all the graduation activities in Knoxville. Then we moved Max home on our way home. I was tired of hearing about the 3rd Saturday of October of their junior year before the weekend was over (Roll Tide Roll)! What is next for DeanoRolls?!? Hmmm!?!

Kayaking To Burgess Falls State Park's Beautiful Waterfall Burgess Falls State Park 2.0! We've visited this magnificent Tennessee waterfall from the top several times (on foot). We've never kayaked to it to see it from the bottom. At 136 feet tall (and at least that wide) it is absolutely beautiful. It has to be among the top waterfalls in Tennessee. It is a very fun (and relaxing) kayak adventure (highly recommended).

Printer ink refills #inflation Last purchased 2 years ago (Oct '22) for $115.78 now $134.76. +$18.98 or +16%. Same store, same register. But inflation is running 3% according to the most recent CPI! HMMM!?!?🤔 It must just be printer ink that is outpacing inflation! 🤡🌏

More to come IMHO! For a “new asset” to come onto the scene and take in more money than one of the most successful recent strategies around is 🤯 PS - There are multiple Spot ETFs! Funny that Vanguard chose to not allow their customers to buy these ETFs HFSP! Fidelity’s Spot ETF is number 8 on the list. Full. Fucking. Send! Tick tock, next block. HODL

Disney's Magic Kingdom We spent a full day chasing every ride at the best of the DisneyWorld theme parks, Magic Kingdom. I know it is the best because it had one of the best rides ever (Splash Mountain RIP) and because they sell Orange Fanta / Dole Whip Floats. Since I had two of those in our day there I know it is the best. Fact! The new Tron ride was okay too! It's not as good as the orange float, but good.

True "Inflation" Everyone: [nothing...minding own business] Deano: I wanted to know how 'everything/everyone' is being impacted by recent inflation. So I tried to make all that fit on one page! Everyone: "Stop! Go to bed Deano!"

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True “Inflation”

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Disney's Animal Kingdom We spent a day with Emmaline and Zach at Animal Kingdom. It had been a few years since we'd been there. Adult Disney with adult children is still fun (maybe more fun)! We also explored the real Florida kingdom on its oldest scenic boat tour (in Winter Park).

4 Awesome Waterfalls at Virgin Falls State Natural Area (Sparta, TN) We spent a day waterfall hunting at Virgin Falls State Natural Area. It was a long day of hiking (10+ miles and 30k+ steps). It was worth every step, however. Tons of water was flowing across all four of the waterfalls we visited. My favorite waterfall wasn't even Virgin Falls. The water in the creek would appear and disappear at various times throughout the hike. The massive Virgin Falls waterfall disappears underground without even leaving a puddle. Weird. We had a picnic at Virgin Falls and then hit Martha's Pretty Point before ending our hike and resting our tired feet. This one has been on my list for a while. It was worth the wait! Adding this hike to the Epic Ground Pound List now!

Lots Of Hiking At Frozen Head State Park (Wartburg, TN) Frozen Head State Park was our second-to-last TN state park. It has been on my list for a while (since it is a hiker's state park). It has about 50 miles of hiking trails. We knocked out 20 miles of those while there. It also was towards the end of the Tennessee state park list because I had to convince Emily that we could tent camp and remain married. We are normally RV'ers but this trip was perfect weather for tent camping and hiking! We'll go back to Frozen Head SP!

A Fifth of a Barkley Marathon (at Frozen Head State Park) The Barkley Marathon is a secret 100-mile ultramarathon race at Tennessee's Frozen Head State Park each year. They do 5 20-mile loops (with 10,000+ feet of elevation gain per loop) within 60 hours. Very few humans have ever finished the race in its 38-year history. We tried to do 1 (one/uno) loop (1 fifth of a Barkley Marathon) within the same amount of time. 20+ miles and 4,500 feet of elevation gain got us in the neighborhood of one loop of a Barkley Marathon. One Loop. Was. Plenty. Enough. For. Me.

DeanoRolls Is Better Than Mr. Beast (1k Subscribers and 250k Views) DeanoRolls has joined the upper 10% of YouTubers by passing 1,000 subscribers. I also just passed 250,000 views on my videos. I still have no clue why anyone would watch one of my videos. Regardless, the next stop is passing the most successful YouTuber of all time, Mr. Beast. Only 265 million more subscribers to go! My top 5 most-watched videos are an eclectic bunch. I use YouTube to store all my travel videos and as my "accountability partner" to keep my butt off the couch (by posting at least one video a week). Becoming a "YouTuber" has been a pleasant surprise that I didn't expect when I started dumping my videos onto the interwebs. If you watched, liked, subscribed, commented, shared, or endured an ad along the way -- thank you! Subscribe to see where DeanoRolls!

My Favorite 100 Paintings @ The Art Institute Of Chicago I visited The Art Institute of Chicago while in town for a concert. They have over 300,000 works of art. Here are my favorite 100!

Orbital Concert In Chicago It had been 23 years since my college roommate, Brent, and I had seen one of our favorite bands, ORBITAL. I know you've never heard of them. That doesn't change the fact that they are the best in the game. We headed to Chicago to see 1 of 2 shows they did in the US. Blake was with us back in 2001 the last time we saw them. He came with us again. We also took Keith with us (he'd never heard a note come from their electronic music boxes). What is he even doing with his life?!? They took the stage around midnight. This is extremely late for this 50+ year old. I'm not in rave party shape anymore! LOL It was a blast (from the past)! So. Fun.

Cutting A Road Through The Woods - Part 3 FINALE! (DeanoFarms: Week 72) FINALE! I finally finished the road through our woods to connect our front and back pastures.

Max graduated from the University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business this weekend. Arden graduated as well. So, they did it together! We are very proud of them both. I could have done without all the "3rd Saturday in October of our Junior year" references about the Vols win over Bama throughout the weekend's ceremonies. Funny, I didn't hear any references to Freshman, Sophomore, or Senior year?!? ROLL. TIDE. ROLL. Max's graduation marks the end of the Dean family's 11-year college journey. 5 years we had 1 in school, 4 years we had 2 in school at the same time, and for 2 years we had 3 in school at the same time! We are 4 for 4 on graduates! Deano's wallet is very glad it is over! LOL

Revisiting Memphis, TN We've been to Memphis before, but it has been a while! We met Preston for a Grizzlies game. I'm not a huge basketball fan but 1) it was fun and 2) I'll use any excuse to eat at Rendezvous. We hit a few other Memphis favorites while in town (Beale Street, Bass Pro Shop @ the Pyramid, Germantown Commissary, and then Graceland).

T.O. Fuller State Park - Memphis, TN Our trip back home was cursed from the second we left the prior campground in Hot Springs, AR. The bad luck lasted all the way through our time at T.O. Fuller State Park in Memphis. We stayed at this state park while we explored around Memphis. We wound up cutting our losses to beat the rain that was headed our way. This was the only state park in TN that we left earlier than we planned [sad face emoji].

Two Days In Hot Springs National Park (Hot Spring, AR) We spent two days exploring Hot Spring National Park (in Hot Springs, AR). I was excited to go for a soak to heal all my ailments in the 4,000-year-old thermal spring waters. I did my soaking at the Buckstaff Bathhouse which opened in 1912 (and is the only bathhouse to continuously operate since then). It was like a trip back in time. Sorry, but the video does not have any footage of me in the bathhouse. I know this will disappoint many of you! Also, no footage of Emily because she was a scaredy cat and didn't do a soak at all?!? What?!?

Cutting A Road Through The Woods - Part 2 (DeanoFarms: Week 71) Week 2 of this multiweek project. After a slow start with a myriad of problems the prior week I started making decent progress this weekend. It was a beautiful weekend to be in the woods. I dropped the largest tree I've ever cut down (a cedar tree). It even went the direction I wanted it to go. Bonus points: I didn't die in the process! #deanofarms