Category: Travel

#Abandoned September 28

There are a lot of fabulous civil engineering works in the United States. Examples include highways, bridges, railroads, dams, and canals. Some of those works are still in use but some are ABANDONDED. When it...

#Texas September 24

Today’s post is on interesting facts about TEXAS. I hope friends Pamela Ritch, Mark Payne, and Newy Scruggs can learn something new about the Great State of TEXAS. I also hope that Todd Anderson now knows that Dr Pepper does not have...

#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...