After a quick family breakfast, it was off to Baltimore. Why Baltimore? Well, first off, it’s my hometown. I have ties… including much family in a cemetery, and y’all know by know this trip is all about the dead folks. Also, there’s Poe’s gravesite, which I have been to and …
Y’all. THE ENTIRE REASON FOR THIS AMAZEBALLS ROAD TRIP. Ten or eleven years ago, Sharon and I went to the Florida Fiber-In for the first time. Everyone was really friendly, but we didn’t really feel there were too many people our age there. That is, until we saw Beth. Sharon …
So, one of the things I did when researching our road trip, was look up everywhere we were going to be in Roadside America to see what sort of fantastic bits of Americana we could see. Who knew that the tiny town of Kingwood, West Virginia, where Sharon was born …
WHEN LAST WE LEFT OUR INTREPID HEROINES…. I know, I know, who can remember back that far, right?! Talk about a long anticipation for a story finish. So, just to recap… Stage One. We stopped off at Peach World (it’s been two years, yes, I did finish that peach moonshine …
Graveyard #3 was actually kind of a bonus; we had a couple of hours to kill before leaving for the wedding Friday afternoon, and I knew I wanted to see an old gas station I’d found on the Roadtrip America website, but on the way was the Kingwood Cemetery and …
Wait, what’d you call me? I’m off to Fiber-In, in Orlando, in a couple of hours. Tim is staying home with the dogs, and cooking lots of good food for his family, which he’ll take out to Amy’s park some time this weekend (he’s making enough for loads of leftovers, …
This will really just be a post with pictures. On Friday morning we got up and went to see Sharon’s brother’s paintball location (Preston County Paintball) and when we got out of the car, Hank came up to me – he’d gotten there earlier – and said, “girl, you got …
When last we left our intrepid heroines, we had just finished lunch at the most amazing little Italian place we found on the Googles. I’d been having trouble with my socks, not liking any of the patterns I’d brought with me, and Sharon casually said, “maybe there’s a yarn store …
Sharon and I recently took a road trip to West Virginia for a friend’s wedding, then over to Baltimore, and back down. A lot of driving, you say? Well, yes (about 2000 miles), but believe me… we had things we wanted to do on the way. Here’s the second thing …
I don’t go on vacation often, but when I do, I GO BIG. Sharon and I recently took a road trip to West Virginia for a friend’s wedding, then over to Baltimore, and back down. A lot of driving, you say? Well, yes (about 2000 miles), but believe me… we …
Tuesday I woke up to this! More snow had started to fall during the night; thick, fat flakes that piled and piled on top of each other. I sat and had breakfast with my nose pressed to the window, watching snow fall lightly. After a bit, it let up, and …
Monday was spent in the car. We left Asheville after breakfast and with a ten hour drive if we made no stops, we were ready for a long day (as we did have stops planned). Speaking of stops, here’s a tip — if you’re ever driving through London, Kentucky, and …
Sunday morning we got up and went over to the McDonald’s for breakfast. Sure, there was a continental breakfast in the hotel, but the hotel didn’t have a floor-to-ceiling double-sided fireplace, and a baby grand piano in the corner. I KNOW, RIGHT? I only eat at McDonald’s about once every …
Day one! We hit the road as early as we could, hoping to be in North Carolina by dinner time, in case Cetty could get away from the hospital for a bit for dinner. I don’t think I’ve told the story because this all happened so quickly; Tim and I …
Remember my West Virginia Weekend? This is Part Four. Here is Part One, here is Part Two, and here is Part Three. 1. My intrepid helpers (and hosts), 2. The Old Company Store, 3. pink flower, 4. Looking for Ada, 5. Queen Anne’s Lace, 6. Don’t blink, 7. Looking for Ada, 8. Looking for …
I know I’ve been quiet the last few weeks – I haven’t even had time to finish writing up going to West Virginia in August – but here’s why. I was getting everything together to vend for a full weekend at the Florida Fiber-In! Sharon helped me, and a few …
1. East River Mountain Tunnel, 2. Tunnel. I know. Thrilling., 3. Welcome to West Virginia!, 4. Big Walker Mountain Tunnel, 5. Clouds playing on treetops, 6. Nothing but sky and hills, 7. Sky. Hills. Beauty., 8. Far off hills, 9. That dawg, 10. What’s that up ahead?, 11. Light and …
Here and there as I’ve had time I’ve been uploading my West Virginia photos (the trick/catch is that I could have had time, but since I got back I’ve been trying hard to give myself breathing space in the day and not push myself to workworkwork hard on EVERYTHING ALL …
I don’t have a lot of cemetery experience, so one thing that we saw a lot that both surprised me and made me a little sad*, were overgrown headstones. You can barely see, but directly in back of the middle marker, in the middle of that thicket, is the headstone …
Vacation. Where I’m up for pretty much anything, as long as “anything” doesn’t involve me eating foods I’m allergic to. (I’m also going to try to pre-write a couple of blog posts, so maybe this blog will actually see more words from me when I’m nowhere near it…. maybe! Depends …
Tim watches a lot of cooking shows (I tend to not watch them because most of them are cooking healthy chicken and fish, both of which I’m allergic to, so why should I waste time learning to cook something I’m never going to be able to eat?). And not just …
I can’t believe I’m just copying and pasting this from Facebook, but… it’s where I wrote it first, and I’d rather take a long hot shower this morning than rephrase and rewrite it. #Honesty I had such a great time at ICFA I almost don’t even know where to start. …
There have not been enough hours in the days this week. A lot of that, though, is because I’m not trying to push myself to do ALL THE THINGS. So is it really fair to say there aren’t enough hours? Or would it be more fair to say that I …
