Let’s take a trip to one of the most iconic race tracks in America, the legendary Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. It was just a quick hop up the road from where I was camping, so I figured let’s go! For the tiny sum of four dollars, I got to see everything. Well, everything a…
Month: June 2017
Sunday Song for a Vagabond Dad
From our very first trip in 1966, my Dad and I didn’t stop seeing places together. So on this Father’s Day, the second one without my traveling buddy, here’s to 50 years of seeing the USA with him. While he was still working and I lived on the East Coast, we traveled from Philly to…
Weekly Update: Jun 14, 2017
I feel like every week lately, I start my report by typing something along the lines of “this isn’t the week I had planned.” Here we go again… This is not quite the week I had planned. It wasn’t a total wipeout, like the week before when I dislocated my finger. This week was more…
Sunday Serenity: Reminding Myself of Good Times
The last several weeks have been a series of accidents, leading to (among other things) a new windshield, a cast, two new phones (yes, two), and lots of cancelled reservations. I had to let go of the idea that I would see the Great Smokies and Shenandoah this year, both places I had been looking…
Stained Glass
When I was little, the church down at the end of our street was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Tall, narrow stained glass windows that seemed absolutely magical when the light poured through them. I haven’t thought about that church in years, until today, when I found an open door in downtown Terre…