The Great channels in Virginia. I could not stand it any longer I had to go see for myself and I had Monday off. Dee and I have been best friends since the third grade. When we were young we explored every spot of woods we could find, caught crawdads in the creek, build tree … Continue reading The great channels
Category: Adventure blog
I love spring days that I get to ride to my bike to work
The trail to the ghost town of Runion or The flattest hike In North Carolina.Many times I have driven to Hotsprings and wondered what all the hikers were going to see that was parked on the left, right before you cross the Laurel River.A friend of mine Bia was looking for an easy hike. I … Continue reading The flattest hike in WNC
Wow! I dreamed I walked paths lined with wildflowers, whole mountainsides carpeted with wildflowers, the smell as sweet as spring! This afternoon dreams came true. I have spoken before of my distaste for the interstate how you can drive across america and never see america on an interstate.This afternoon I left Spartanburg SC with a … Continue reading Melrose falls or Wild flower heaven
Trouble in the deep, lessons learned. A beautiful day for diving! Sunshine, temps in the seventys, diving in the discharge of a nuclear power plant. Being a nuclear power plant security is tight. I imagine the guy in this tower is holding a M16 The first dive everything was perfect, the amont of wieght I … Continue reading Trouble in the deep scuba diving in Lake Keowee
I recently came across a picture from Grayson Highlands I had taken a few years ago. It reminded me how beautiful that area is. Grayson Highlands is a 4502-acre park in Southwest Virginia not too far from Damascus and very close to Virginia's two highest peaks Mount Rogers and Whitetop Mountain. The adjoining Jefferson National … Continue reading Grayson Highland’s Spring Trip 2021
Making it happen.Often we will see people from our past at the store, at a funeral, or on Facebook and make promises to get together soon, knowing it will never happen. Not because we do not want it to happen it is just because so much life happens! But sometimes we must make just a … Continue reading A hike along the mountain to seas trail with family I have not seen in years
After many years of seeing pictures and hearing stories of Daffodil flats in the Linville gorge , I decided this would be the year I finally made the hike that so many have warned was extremely difficult. Many years ago when I was around 7 or 8 out riding my bicycle around the block I … Continue reading Daffodil flats EPIC!!!
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