A Four Brewery Day
Posted on 08/28/2022 in misc • Tagged with North_Carolina, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape, food, travel
DrupalCon Portland 2022
Posted on 04/30/2022 in misc • Tagged with Travel, FOSS, Drupal, Technology
Rocktown Beer and Music Festival
Posted on 04/18/2022 in misc • Tagged with Music, Food, Travel
Southwest Air is Lying to Us
Puerto Rico 2021
Posted on 12/23/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Puerto_Rico
A Tale of Two Campgrounds
Posted on 11/15/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia
Camping at Cave Mountain Lake
Posted on 10/21/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia
Camping at Devils Backbone Brewery
Posted on 09/19/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia
Labor Day Weekend at First Landing
Posted on 09/08/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia
Asheville, Mayberry, and Hungry Mother
Posted on 07/28/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia, Blue_Ridge_Pkwy
Grayson Highlands State Park
Posted on 07/09/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia
Big Meadows Campground - Shenandoah National Park
Posted on 06/21/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape
One Year of #RVLife
Posted on 06/17/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Aliner-Ascape
Breaks Interstate Park
Posted on 06/07/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape
Great Smokey Mountain National Park Gatlinburg
Posted on 05/22/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, GSMNP, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape
Great Smokey Mountain National Park - Townsend
Posted on 05/16/2021 in misc • Tagged with Travel, GSMNP, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape
An unexpected reminder
Posted on 04/27/2020 in misc • Tagged with Coronavirus, Travel
Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html
It was game night at Casa de O'Donnell this evening …
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I like Charleston
We got a head start on our planned 2020 tour of beachy areas we might move to in 2021 by spending a few days of Christmas break in Charleston SC - the first trip there for either of us. Won’t be the last trip there for sure, and Charleston has …
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Galax VA weekend
10 things I could have tweeted this weekend, if I had had Internet or 4G service in the Galax VA area.
1- The T-Mobile website lies about coverage in the Galax area. There is none - no voice, no data, nothing.
2- I just scrolled through 500 channels on DirectTV and …
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Petersburg VA Battlefield
Posted on 09/01/2018 in misc • Tagged with Travel, History, Richmond, Virginia
My son and I visited Petersburg National Battlefield yesterday. Visiting a civil war battlefield with a civil war expert makes the experience much better. I highly recommend it. Petersburg was basically Lee's last stand that turned into a 9 month siege in which Grant bet (correctly) that he could outlast …
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