#truckeroo

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Happy Pride! Love yourself! Celebrate diversity. Love is Love! Love WINS! #capitalpride #dcpride #nellies #gayandproud #truckeroo #happypride #lisamariestudio #nelliesducky #capitalpridedc #capitalpride2019 #dcpride2019 #dcprideweekend #ustreet #ustreetdc #truckeroodc #loveislove #lovewins #blackgayandproud https://www.instagram.com/p/Bydzhb4BRym/?igshid=5k1ms1e6y9l2

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#Truckeroo and a drank... (at Truckeroo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BybnYVVhoXG/?igshid=1336dsujssh8n

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[mmmgoodies]

#THANKYOU @nguyen.kim ・・・ More like Greaties 😎👌🏾 #Truckeroo #mmmgoodies #frozencustard #REDVELVET #DONUTWICH #GODisCEO (at Truckeroo)

[ognitty]

#TRUCKEROO #TRUCKEROODC #DCCHILLEN #NITTYINDACITY

[hidinginplainsite]

How to Do Truckeroo the Right Way

How to Do Truckeroo the Right Way

Truckeroo is a popular food truck event in Washington, D.C. that happens nearly year-round. There are so many trucks with great, Insta-worthy food, and you don’t want to miss out and not get the most out of this free entry event! Here are some tips to help you experience as much of this event as possible. Show up early. Truckeroo usually goes from 4 pm to 11 pm. If you don’t like large crowds, go…

[hutchinusa-blog]

Weeeeemson, WV

Greetings from SWWV, otherwise known as Southwest West Virginia, not to be confused with SXWV, the region’s trendy coal mining-tech-music-food truckeroo week long jerk off. Last year I heard Ghostface played a secret show in a 10 person bar, and it was transcendent. I’m in the heart of coal country, first work trip of 2017 in a state where every single god forsaken county went for the golden shower golden boy Donald Trump. There was even a big article last year about Williamson after the election that profiled a religious, out of work coal worker, Obama supporter who flipped for Trump despite his many moral and religious transgressions because he at least talked about Coal, i.e. put on a miners helmet, whereas Hilary said she was going to put miners out of work. Stay tuned to if they get back to work when fracking, automation, and cheaper coal alternatives in the mountain west have also caused the change of employment composition in Appalachian coal fields in addition to Hilary Clinton’s emails

I flew out of the time machine that is DCA airport this morning through the small regional airport terminal 35x, aka the Hutchinson gate. I didn’t know this gate existed before and now I’m flying out of it twice a month to such great destinations as Chattanooga, Birmingham, Louisville, North Haverbrook, and Ogdenville and by golly I put them on the map! Today’s airplane was a teeny prop plane that landed into Charleston’s WV, Chuck Yeager mountaintop cut airport. Not to be confused with Pete Seeger electric rock mountaintop fuzz fest. The airport, named after the sound speed breaking pilot is cut onto the top of a mountain and makes landings quite interesting, particularly as you are whizzing by houses and trees at eye level as you’re landing.

Charleston, the state capitol is also West Virginia’s largest city, at just over 50k. The State does not have many major population centers, Huntington, Morgantown, Wheeling, and Parkersburg are all 40-20k, and I am certainly not in one of these bustling metropolises, for I am in Williamson, WV on the Kentucky border in the heart of coal country, with a population of about 3,000.

Williamson sits on the Tug Fork River which over the course of the City’s history has flooded several times, with big ones in 1977 and 1984 until the Army Corp of Engineers built a massive flood wall that envelops the town in 1991. 

There’s even some art etched into the flood wall to jazz it up. The flood gates have only been deployed twice in 2002 and 2003 when the town did experience some flooding although nothing of the catastrophic nature of previous floods where the Mountaineer Hotel I’m currently staying in would have been underwater for the first several floors. You can see in the picture below a bit of the designs that spices up the utilitarian concrete structure that protects the town from the natural threats.

Since the big floods of the 70s and 80s, the town’s economy has collapsed, most recently last year when the community and Mingo county, of which Williamson is the seat, lost 1,000 coal jobs a major pillar of the local economy. In fact Mingo County, WV is the 39th strongest coal cluster in the country. It also served as the backdrop to the bitter Hatfield and McCoy feud, otherwise known as the Appalachian Romeo and Juliet only with more confederate sympathizers, moonshine, and hog stealing. Also since the big floods of the previous decades a new man made flood of sorts have been unleashed on the community, prescription opioids and heroin. Damn near every person we encountered walking around the street today was visibly impaired on drugs, or was heading to work at Long John Silvers across the river in Kentucky and probably wished they were impaired on drugs. In the bookstore in Charleston there was a regional book section, all of which were either about the opioid epidemic or a historical fiction about the brutal coal industry the people of this state have both supported and depended on. Fun Fact, The American Pablo Escobar of the  Opioid market, was a doctor who hailed from Portsmouth, OH, another city we’re working in, who figured out the addictive concoction that would get his patients to line up in their pajamas to wait for their painkillers. The OxyCotin epidemic has reached such proportions the Mingo County health commission is considering suing the Pharama Distributors, of which there are only 3 in this country whose the combined revenues equal that of Walmart, due to their predatory supplying and contribution to the public health crisis the county faces. Mingo has the 4th highest opioid death rate of anywhere in the country. 

My life is so fucking weird. Last night I was at a cool happy hour in DC for the ride hailing app Lyft, drinking beers with friends in town from Seattle and SF, today I’m at a bar in the heart of Appalachian coal/opioid country where you can still smoke. 

At least I’m not this tone deaf.

Here in coal mining town Williamson WV with an awesome organization called Impact Experience that unites impact investors and top minds with community leaders to facilitate economic, social and health growth within a community. Williamson, WV is undergoing a number of changes with the coal shift, causing a huge decline in jobs. Dr. Dino Beckett (in this pic) who runs a health and wellness center has been the driving force of change in this small historic town. @romanlillie my talented producer and I were questioning if vegan food would be available for us to eat during our 4 day shoot, particularly in this town which has been labeled a food desert. How wrong we were, not only plant based friendly in Williamson, they were genuinely interested in learning more about it. Future vegan visitors in Williamson- At the mountaineer hotel you will find the proud owner and talented chef named Mark, who will make the most splendid gluten free vegan gourmet meals. In a few months I plan to taste some home made vegan cheeses of his because as a thank you I got him my favorite cool book @miyokoschinner vegan cheese book. He seemed to really look forward to fermenting some nuts. Yummy for me. @unleashedpro documentary filming. Making jobs for coal miners #vegan #happy #positivechange

A photo posted by Shira Lane (@shiralane) on Jul 10, 2016 at 4:38pm PDT

[mmmgoodies]

#THANKYOU @sammy_levy19 ・・・ Don(u)'t you want me 😍 * * * #DOUBLECHOCOLATE #DONUTWICH + #OREOS --------- #mmmgoodies #Truckeroo #frozencustard #GODisCEO (at Truckeroo)

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It's Really Plantain and Simple

A review about Peruvian Brothers and Westray's Finest Ice Cream, two food trucks, that were at the last August Truckeroo event.

In a park full of food trucks, I had my heart set on one that didn’t have a long line upon arrival. I tried it for the first time, last year, at my first Truckeroo event. Peruvian Brothers, one of my favorite food trucks in the D.C. Metropolitan area, serves some of the best Peruvian food I’ve ever had. This Truckeroo event felt drastically different than the last one I attended. It was hot and…

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Take me back to #Truckeroo #iknowitsnottbt #hadto #summernights #summertime (at Half Street Fairgrounds)

[bestkeptxsecret]

Through the Good Times and The Bad Ones 😊 #siblinglove #brother #truckeroo (at Truckeroo)

[mmmgoodies]

#THANKYOU @chamdelier ・・・ root beer float inside this truck ❤️❤️ 😉 📍Washington, DC 📷: @dannah11 #mmmgoodies #frozencustard #Truckeroo #GODisCEO (at Truckeroo)

[3ndiap3]

Bulgogi burrito was on point last night #truckeroo

[outhouseofhorror]

My last #Truckeroo order for the evening - Urban Poutine's Red Wine Braised Short Ribs Poutine. Delicious! (at Truckeroo)

[djmimdc-blog]

Hello #Truckeroo 2016!! #WhosYourDJ #DJMIM 🎯 ♥ (at Truckeroo FoodTruckFestival)

[mayasp8]

Had some great pizza today from DC slices at my first ever Truckeroo. Pizza had sausage, pepperoni, and bacon on it. It was so good! #truckeroo #dcslices #sogood #pizza #food #meatlovers #delicious