Category: Travel
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Artwork from the Road: Roberta Flack Mural, Black Mountain, NC
One of the things I enjoy about exploring towns is seeing murals on buildings.
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Stories from the Road: The Time a Town Wished Us Happy Anniversary
We thought, how awesome that the town would recognize us on our 35th. How did they even know we were coming?
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Indian Creek Covered Bridge, Salt Sulphur Springs, WV
Seeing a chance to promote their fledgling construction business, 18-year-old Oscar Weikel and his 16-year-old brother Ray contracted with Monroe County (WV) to build a bridge over Indian Creek. Using tools from their uncle’s saw mill, they set up shop at the creek nearby and went to work. From 1898 to 1903, the pair built…
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Stories from the Road: A Visit to Emanuel AME Church
The following is a post I wrote for Facebook after a visit to Emanuel AME in May 2019. I share it on the seventh anniversary of the senseless murder of the Emanuel 9
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The Theatre: A Place of Magic
The theatre is a place that gives the promise of something magical that will happen inside to stir the soul and take us to a world that is fresh and inviting to us
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Stories from the road: The Angels Among Us
In making a trip run smooth, it does require help from people. For me, it’s persons that I may see one time and never again. What struck me this past week is the number of service industry people that went out of there way to do their job, and did so with a smile and…
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Grub on the Road: An Abomination That Needs To Be Stopped
One of my first posts for this blog was about the virtues of boiled peanuts. You can reread that post here, if you’d like. Boiled peanuts the misunderstood treat This. This is not boiled peanuts. This abomination needs to be stopped.
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Around the Block: Mishawaka, Indiana
Located in St. Joseph’s County, “the Princess City” is to the east of South Bend in north central Indiana, near the border with Michigan. Legend has it that Mishawaka gets its name from the daughter of Shawnee chief Elkhart. The discovery of bog iron deposits attracted settlers in the early 1830s, which founded the town…
