Nomad exploring life wherever I am
Last year, I was at Watkins Glen camping, but the raceway was closed. This time, though, it was wide open on the weekend, hosting the SCCA circuit, which ranges from Mini Coopers to open-wheel to NASCAR-style stock cars. Oh, yeah, I had a great time and I’ll try to explain the reasons why.
This is my third visit to the Museum of Glass in Corning since 2017. I could probably go every day for a month and not be bored. But then, when you love glass in all shapes and sizes and uses, this place is pretty close to Nirvana. Such beautiful things, and so many of them!
Charleston has a complicated history, one rooted in plantations and enslavement. It’s hard to address those in the context of a “fine arts” museum, but the curatorial team at Gibbes Museum has handled it well. This is a place of old and new, with nods to both the recent and centuries-old past as well as introducing the visitor to artists on their way up. I really enjoyed my visit, learning about new eras in American art as well as how blended and yet separated our experiences are throughout history.
While I was camping at Cunningham Falls State Park (a nice little spot about a half hour southwest of Gettysburg, PA), I took an afternoon to drive the tiny backroads that led to three different covered bridges. It was a pretty fun way to see more of the Maryland countryside and add three covered bridges to my lifetime total (all the others are in Pennsylvania). And you can drive through each of the three bridges, so that added to the fun.
High Shoals Falls seemed like an eminently doable hike when I looked at the map of the trails available at South Mountains State Park in North Carolina. I decided to go early in the morning, skipping breakfast to beat the crowds that typically arrive later in the morning.