The original plan for Day 8 was to spend most of the day at Fort Laramie, with a quick stop at Ayres Natural Bridge on the way to the ol’ fort. But when looking at the route the night before, I spotted Register Cliff between … Continue reading Wyoming 2023 Trip Report (the last two days)
Day 7 turned out to be THE BIG DAY of this trip. I hadn’t expected it to be. I had seen it is mostly as a travel day (over 5.5 hours on the road, according to Google Maps), with some good scenery in Wind River … Continue reading Wyoming 2023 Trip Report (Day 7, part 1)
Day 4: Having visited the Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum (outside Laramie) just two days before, I moved on to the Wyoming Frontier Prison museum in Rawlins. As I’ve said before, I don’t generally take photos inside museums, and this was no exception. But I had … Continue reading Wyoming 2023 Trip Report (Days 4 – 6)
When last we left our hero, he was emerging from the grounds of Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. Next, he photographed a couple of the historic homes nearby: At this point, our hero resumed writing in the first person. The next day, I … Continue reading Coastal North Carolina, part two (March 2020)
When I stopped working, in January 2020, it was my intention to take a trip of at least one week, every other month. Obviously, COVID-19 interfered with that, but when I set off that Spring on my first trip to North Carolina’s coast, I had … Continue reading Coastal North Carolina, part one (March 2020)
I never know how to begin these hodgepodge posts. Let me try this approach: Let’s look at some photos, DAMMIT! Yeah. I think that works. We begin in June 2019. I was visiting Cherokee, NC again, and decided to go into the Great Smoky Mountains … Continue reading More Hodgepodge Than You Can Shake a Stick at (part two)
I have reached a point in my figurative camera roll where I didn’t go on any intensively photographed trips for quite a while. But that didn’t stop me taking a small number of photos at each of several places. So many places in fact, that … Continue reading More Hodgepodge Than You Can Shake a Stick at (part one)
As you may or mayn’t recall from last week‘s ThrowBack Thursday (TBT), I took a weekend trip to Roanoke, Virginia in late January 2019. And, as you may or mayn’t know, my web browser’s spell checker says that “mayn’t” is a perfectly cromulent word. (As … Continue reading Greensboro, NC and GSMNP (early 2019)
I think the Dodge Motor Company should produce a car called the Hodgepodge. I also think this car should be endorsed by Dean and Rog. But that’s enough o’ that. This edition of ThrowBack Thursday (TBT) covers three separate trips (well, 2.5 really, but we’ll … Continue reading The TBT Hodgepodgery Resumes
And now…it’s time for the informative yet spine-tingling conclusion of…a self-guided walking tour of Asheville, North Carolina. Click here for the previous installment. After lunch at the phenomenal example of Art Deco architecture that goes by the name of S&W Cafeteria, I found a few … Continue reading Asheville, North Carolina, part two (March 2018)
Voyages with Parkinson's 