Category Archives: Travel

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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