Welcome to October, the month of fall foliage, crazy costumes, and other adventures! Much of the last week, I was obsessed with the 52 Frames photography challenge. This past week, the challenge was to take a famous photograph and then recreate it or otherwise pay homage to it. I chose Sally Mann, a Virginia photographer whose work I saw in Washington DC earlier this year. It took me a ton of shots and post-processing to get close to what I wanted to do; I ended up with two favorites and could only submit one. This is the one that didn’t…
Weekly Update: Sep 26, 2018
Wait, how did it suddenly become the end of September? Where did 2018 go so fast? Ah, well, such is life. This week started with me still hanging out at Natural Tunnel State Park, literally the only state park left open in in Virginia or North Carolina, thanks to Flo. Friday, it was time to give North Carolina another shot. The ironic part is that my drive took me 90% of the way back to Hungry Mother State Park, the place I had left the prior Saturday to get away from potential Florence flooding. The good news is that at…
Sunday Serenity: Trust
I was about three months into my vagabonding life (way back in 2016) when I realized that the whole basis of camping is about trust. I was staying at a small campground just off a secondary road that got a fair amount of traffic. I thought to myself, for the first time, what keeps people from just pulling over and taking everything I have, or whatever they can fit in their car? What keeps them from doing that? Most people are honest and decent and wouldn’t even think of taking something that doesn’t belong to them. They are people who…
Old Cars
There’s something about Virginia and old cars. It started with this view last month out my window as I was driving up to Richmond. Lots of nice cars on that hauler and then… that one. A few days later, I was sitting at a traffic light on my way to get new tires on the Subaru and I found myself sitting behind this guy. And just yesterday, driving down a little country road near my current campground, this wonderful view. I literally did a u-turn to go back and take this shot. How could I not? Do you wonder where…
Weekly Update: Sep 19, 2018
Where were we? Oh, right, that hurricane thing. I’m very lucky I got out of the Kerr Lake area (my original plan for the last few weeks) because a tornado was spotted in the town nearest the campground. I moved to Hungry Mother State Park, which had a lovely running path and I quite enjoyed it. On Thursday, I finally managed to get the Subaru in for its 60K service, my third try at a service appointment this week (first Durham, NC, then Martinsville, VA, and finally Bluefield, WV). The drive was about an hour, with a fun long tunnel…




