Category: North Carolina

No Direction Home: “Looking south on Sparks Lane from the Abrams Creek ford shown below.” This Photo on fletch’s blog really makes me wish I was close enough to take a stroll…When I first saw it this week it reminded me of some of the roads I’ve visited. Springtime and a country road… No Direction Home is another blog I

“the view from the parking lot of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church on Rush Branch Rd in the Bethel community. Over the yonder distant ridge is Tennessee.” This is what I love about Marie’s Blue Ridge blog. It just makes the intention to relocate that much stronger…

What is it about some people that causes them to always try to get to the highest place around? All of my life I have climbed to the top of the highest vantage point (and growing up on the Gulf coast of Texas, that usually meant a tree). For years and years my favorite trips were to the Texas Hill

Watauga County North Carolina (I originally published this on my genealogy site a while back) I don’t remember what it was that first pulled me to Valle Crucis when I was planning our 2003 Vacation. I had fallen in love with the Blue Ridge Mountains on my Charlotte trip in 2000. During that trip I had cruised from Blowing Rock

Inventing the Myth as I Go Where am I heading and how will I get there? You are welcome to come along for the ride. Try not to fall off as we round the curves… I have tried to do this blog thing before and haven’t managed to develop the discipline to make it work…Blame it on the Floyd County