This year has been the worst when it comes to traffic. Visitors traveling up and down the road in search of bears, and when they happen to see one, they stop in the middle of the road to take pictures on their cell phones despite the 50 plus vehicles behind them trying to enter the…

“The Mountains Are Calling”Blue Ridge Parkway, North CarolinaImage No 316 The Blue Ridge Parkway is the longest linear park in the United States. The parkway stretches for 469 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Cherokee, North Carolina to Skyline Drive in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. The part of the parkway that I…

I am long overdue for a return visit to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I made reservations at an RV park in Gatlinburg for this year’s trip. Normally I would have had reservations 6 to 8 months in advance but due to the uncertainty around Covid, I held off. So now I just have…

I found this place while taking a detour around Gainesville on my way to Cedar Key a few weeks back. At that time I just drove through and didn’t stop but made a mental note to come back and explore the area. When I came back, I found several abandoned homes and businesses, two of…

The first time I ever visited Texas was in 2010. After I visited my brother in Dallas, I went down towards San Antonio to photograph the missions. LBJ Ranch and Farm Image No. 160 I made a stop at the “LBJ” Ranch, the former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s homestead. When he was president, this…