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A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
From DC to Home
August 17-18, 2013 Saturday morning we checked out of our hotel and headed out to Reston, Va, to visit our niece, Katie. Glynda and Houston joined us, and we had a great brunch of blueberry pancakes. After our visit, Laura and I were ready to hit the road toward home. We punched in “Home” on […]
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Segway Tour of Washington
August 16, 2013 We had missed our morning reservation for our Segway tour, but I was able to get it re-booked for an evening tour. Determined not to miss this again, I rousted Houston and Jeannie from the International Spy Museum and herded them toward the Metro. We arrived at City Segway Tours 45 minutes […]
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Missed Connections, Zoos, and Spies
August 16, 2013 As it turns out, lots of our family and friends were going to be in the area. We had met with Laura’s former student on Wednesday evening. Houston and Glynda were driving up with a truck load of furniture for my niece, Katie, who was expecting her first child. She and Aaron […]
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Museums, Butterflies, and Long Views
August 15, 2013 In the last post I forgot to mention dinner. One of Laura’s former students, Scott Moore, is an attorney with the National Science Foundation. Once we got settled into our room we headed west on the Metro to meet Scott at his office at NSF. We had a fantastic meal at a […]
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Monticello and Charlottesville
August 14, 2013 As rainy as it had been the day before, this morning turned out to be spectacular. Our agenda for the day was to drive over to Charlottesville and visit Monticello, then continue on to DC. We picked up Interstate 64 and headed eastward from Staunton. On a hill next to the interstate, […]
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Driving through the Monongahela National Forest
August 13, 2013 With the rain last night Laura and I didn’t even attempt to go out and look for any more meteors. Instead, we got a good night’s rest and got up the next morning to head out. We had several options, but decided to play it by ear, depending on the weather. Our […]
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A Trip through the New River Gorge
August 12, 2013 Laura had never been to West Virginia. I had only crossed over the border in the mid 1980′s just to say I had been in that state. We really didn’t know much about the state, except that there were coal mines somewhere. A couple of Laura’s colleagues are from West Virginia, and […]
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Perseids on the Blue Ridge Parkway, with a Side Trip to Mayberry
August 11, 2013 We hadn’t given the new Mini a proper shake-down road trip. When we got the Audi we took it completely across country, driving from South Carolina to somewhere north of Seattle. We didn’t have the time nor energy for such an adventure this time (Well, at least one of us didn’t ) […]
Lowcountry Small Town Tour – The Return Trip
On my way down to Bluffton I passed through twenty-six small towns. In addition to that I’ve visited two ghost towns, and some of those other towns were about to cross the line into the “ghost” category. For the return trip I had a couple of options for avoiding the Interstate. I decided to retrace […]
Posted in Photography, Rambling, Travel
Fourth in Florida
Been a busy week. We headed down to Florida to Laura’s sister’s house for the Fourth holiday. The days at Amy’s have been spent on day trips, but mostly paddling out on the Indian River. I have fallen woefully behind on blogging. I’ve got a couple of ghost town reports and other write-ups to finish. […]
Posted in Family, Paddling, Photography, Rambling, Travel
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