House of Bennetts

Some of you may not know that my second favorite dude in the world is embarking on an epic road trip soon, and LB and I are just coming off of one ourselves. He asked LB and I to put together separate epic road trip songs playlists for him. I obliged and decided that he should not be the only one who gets to benefit from my musical research and love all of the things road trip music. Thus, I am sharing with you, my lovely bloggy peeps. As a heads up, my musical taste falls more on the slow/methodical/emotional nonsense side. However, I clearly do love a good bluegrass... that I can understand. I hate bluegrass where the lyrics are lost to the music (and yes, purists. I totally get that the MUSIC is traditionally the whole point of bluegrass, but it's not my point, so there).

In fact if you click this little circle, you can youtube stalk me and my liked songs on youtube. A BUNCH of these are on there as are some others that didn't fit the road trip vibe.

Here are my top 25 road trip songs for 2014. They are TOTALLY RANDOM.

Flying - Green River Ordinance
Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
Carousel- Miner
Take Me Home Country Roads- John Denver
Riptide- Vance Joy
The Heart- Need to Breathe
Shroud- Nathaniel Rateliff
We Were Us- Keith Urban & Miranda Lambert
Wagon Wheel- Old Crow Medicine Show
Grow Old with Me- Tom Odell
Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams
Gorilla- Bruno Mars
Stay- Rhinna ft. Mikky Ekko
Another Love- Tom Odell
Latch (Acoustic ONLY)- Sam Smith
Youth- Daughter
THE ENTIRE CHET FAKER ALBUM
Fracture- Prawn
Into the Mystic- Van Morrison
Back in the World- David Gray
Lanterns- Birds of Tokyo
Kiss me Slowly- Parachute
Hey Love- Miner
Difference Maker- Need to Breathe
The Cave- Mumford & Sons (Only the live version at Red Rocks... best. ever.)

So House of Bennetts team... what are you favorite songs to jam out to lately?

*Check out part 1 (the surprise) and part 2 (house stalking). I knew that I was gonna like Austin, but the food truck scene made me love it. They have these little spots with 5 or 6 food trucks all over the city and they're pretty sweet. For this round, we stopped in south Austin to get breakfast tacos before Andy headed back to Houston. But we start this food truck adventure with DONUTS!

I am partaking in a little false advertising with this Gourdough's Donut Streamliner, because I didn't actually eat them. They are loaded with dairy and we were about to be in the car for 14 hours-- you do the math. But how adorable is this little truck? Also, over 1,000 people on yelp just can't be wrong.

LB got super thirsty after finding the food truck "trailer park"... and clearly, super excited too.

And then LB magically flew over Andy off of one leg to pick lint off of his best bro (doesn't he look like he is gearing up for flight?).

The boys were as happy as two boys who just had delicious breakfast tacos are bound to be (read: THRILLED). (Please note the oblivious grumpy old man on the bench. He makes me laugh) I was already entering my "Andy is leaving" sad phase (it's clinical: AILSP. Look it up), when I spotted this random little resturant amidst all the food truck glory. There is something about the color that just makes me wanna smile.

And then we hit the road. We jammed out to Mumford (typical), Need to Breathe, some old school 80s hair band jams, Bruce Springsteen, and Howard Stern. We ate In 'n Out in the middle of a Texas strip mall. Stopped in OKC to see my favorite tree and to say hi to the boys from TNT. Cruised into Witchita, Kansas where we scored a Hyatt for $70. In the lobby of the hotel that night I unknowingly tore my labrum in my shoulder. I say unknowingly despite the fact that the pain dropped me to the floor. It didn't matter though because even through my AILSP, and the physical pain in my shoulder, when LB pulled off the freeway outside of Witchita the next day I got the best shots I probably will ever take.

Just as a teaser, y'all can gander at this picture of a little barn somewhere in Oklahoma that I snapped from the car.