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Category Archives: Travel
Want Pie With Your Goose?
We were driving through West Virginia last weekend. The countryside was beautiful, the sun was shining, it was porcelain cold on the other side of the windshield glass, snow stretched to the mountains on our right. Farms with humped barns … Continue reading →
A Brilliant Alternative To Retirement Homes
Over the weekend, I heard about a brilliant piece of thinking from a man in Florida. His name is Ricardo. I hate to use peoples’ names in this space since sometimes my writing attracts unsavory elements and angry retorts, but … Continue reading →
Posted in Hotels, Humor, Personal Stories, South, Travel
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The Holes Of Winter
The snow in Virginia continues. People who live in places like Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis see this yearly, and scoff at our confusion and school closings. But, to bastardize the phrasing of Scotty on Star Trek, Virginia is not built … Continue reading →
Whuzusayinbutmebo?
On a recent trip to the Deep South to take care of some unpleasant business, I began to notice a few incidences of the famous Southern accent evolving into something akin to a foreign language. Not everyone speaks it, but … Continue reading →
4,300 Miles In Two Weeks
In the last two weeks, I have driven a little over 4,300 miles, not by choice. I have hit every city from Hartford, CT to the Gulf Coast, and several of them twice and four times. That’s what happens with … Continue reading →
Fast Food
I hate to admit this, but I have eaten an animal we hit during a rainstorm as we were driving down the road. Truth is, I have eaten more than one. It’s been a long time, and it was … Continue reading →
Rain in Wilmington
Recently, we had the opportunity to shoot in Wilmington, North Carolina. Michael Jordan is from Wilmington. They shoot movies and TV shows there. It is a friendly town, filled with college kids from UNC Wilmington and Cape Fear Community College. … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Hotels, Humor, In The News, Personal Stories, Travel
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Cheap Vacations
With no money for vacations and more people taking staycations, other cheap excursions are gaining in popularity. We went to the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C. this summer. They are free and filled with things to keep a family occupied … Continue reading →
Trip To The Zoo
A little girl walked out of the Ape House at the Washington Zoo last week. The sign above the door promised apes. It definitely smelled like apes, but the apes were not at home. They were all lounging and roaming … Continue reading →
Retching By the Waves
My father did not take many vacations, but when he did, we always packed a box of groceries, filled the ice chest and drove to Destin, Florida. It was a very different place in the 1960’s. The Frangista Motel sat … Continue reading →
Ciderman
Flipping through channels the other night I noticed that Toby McGuire was in both Spiderman and The Ciderhouse Rules. Not that Mr. McGuire ‘s roles have anything to do with this story, but it connected synapses in my brain that … Continue reading →
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Rest Stop Culture
Recently I took a little tour of rest stops across the Deep South. It hardly seems worth more than a few sentences since the nature of a rest stop is so repetitive and ubiquitous, but some rest stops are better … Continue reading →
The Trip To Crazy
My son and I left early, drove to New Haven, past Yale to the State Street Station where we boarded and rode the Express train into the city. We were going to refill our brains. We loaded up some neurons … Continue reading →
The Difference Between Traveling and Going Somewhere
Beginning at 6 am on a Friday in August, I drove from Richmond, Virginia to Hartford, Connecticut. To make it more difficult, I chose to drive a 14-foot, lane-hugging U-Haul truck. Adding to the stress and expanding my carbon footprint … Continue reading →
Hardscrabble, Delaware
Dee and I were out on a shoot a while back, driving almost 600 miles in three days. We sweated and shot our way through Annapolis, Maryland and watched a freight train of a thunderstorm drop the 103º temperature by … Continue reading →