Category: Travel

#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...

#Speedwell May 26

I often get asked what it was like growing up in New Jersey not too far removed from New York City.  My house in Morristown NJ was just thirty miles from the Holland and...