Posted on 06/11/2017 in misc • Tagged with Hikes, Travel, Camping
I talked my wife into camping with me this weekend. This is a big deal because the last time she agreed to camp was 1999. That trip was a bit of a fiasco as we weathered the worse thunderstorm I've ever camped in, and we had a 5 year ...
Posted on 04/09/2017 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Fredericksburg, Hikes
It was another glorious weekend, so another opportunity to get out and do something outdoors. I have new hiking shoes courtesy of Santa, so today seemed seemed like a good today to give them a test run with a relatively easy 5.3 mile hike starting and ending at the ...
Posted on 04/02/2017 in misc • Tagged with Travel, Fredericksburg
With a 65 degree, blue sky day and nothing pressing to do at home, I decided it was a good day to get out and explore. Perusing Google Maps and a few Day trips from DC articles that Google delivered, I decided on Solomons Island, MD as the day's ...
Posted on 11/21/2016 in misc • Tagged with History, Virginia, Travel
Our original plan for Saturday was to drive up to Gettysburg and do a 9 mile battlefield hike. Then my son remembered that 11/19 was Remembrance Day (anniversary of the Gettysburg Address), and neither one of us was looking to deal with a crowd. So we stayed close to ...
Posted on 11/07/2016 in misc • Tagged with Travel, New_Orleans
In an effort to find something to focus on that is not the hellish circus that is tomorrow's election, I'm going to write up a review of our time in New Orleans.
We actually started the trip in Springfield, MO for parents weekend at Missouri State. It's ...
Posted on 11/03/2016 in misc • Tagged with Travel, New_Orleans
Our first night in New Orleans we did a Drunk History tour. It was a two hour walking tour of the more macabre side of French Quarter history, with stops at bars to refill anytime anybody in the group needed a drink.
The picture above ...