Category: Travel

#NC 24 September 23

This is a post about the longest state highway in North Carolina. Over the Labor Day weekend I traveled thru South Carolina, Tennessee, and North Carolina. I observed the state highway signs in each...

#River II August 21

I have written about RIVERS before. I have mentioned how the Lumber River even though it is just 133 miles long can do a lot of damage when it spills its banks. I am calling this...

#Container August 10

Savannah GA is a great place to visit. When there I love seeing the CONTAINER Ships sail up the Savannah River on their way to Port of Savannah. The Port of Savannah is home to...

#Tricolour July 25

In Ireland they have had to postpone an event in 2020 called the TRICOLOUR Celebration. In Lumberton NC I have a friend named Kathy Geibert who probably knows all about the TRICOLOUR’s significance to...

#Waypoints July 22

I started out this morning with the intent to possibly update an older post of mine (April 2016) on North Carolina Water Towers. In doing that research I kept coming up with a term called...

#Hotspots July 19

Prior to March 2020, I had a couple of definitions if I read or heard the word HOTSPOTS. I might think of trendy restaurants or tourist attractions when I heard the word. I am...

#Estate July 14

Growing up in Northern NJ I really did not appreciate the number of ESTATES that dotted the landscape when I was a small child in Morris and Somerset Counties. In Madison NJ you had...

#Offload July 10

I stumbled across an article on timeshares over the 4th of July weekend. It struck a nerve with me because in the last week I have been hit with unsolicited requests to come take a free...

#Holiday June 14

Today is National Flag Day. Flag Day is not a Federal HOLIDAY but it is also a state HOLIDAY in Pennsylvania. You may not realize it but there are many unique state HOLIDAYS in...

#Calabash June 12

This is a story about CALABASH. In March of 1978 I was a 25 year old assistant basketball coach at Pembroke State now called UNC Pembroke.  The university sponsored a men’s college golf tournament...