Looking Back…A Week Ago Today
Driving toward Kerrville along the Guadalupe River somewhere west of Hunt... From Coffee Muses
Tag: road trip
Texas Barbecue
The Podcast I listened to yesterday that really caught my interest was this one... Tiny Texas Cafe Fills Up After Barbecue Award : NPR All Things Considered, July 18, 2008 · Barbecue is religion in Texas. Every five years, Texas Monthly goes on a quest for the Holy Grail —…
It’s “Go Texan Day”
A shot from last year's trail ride by my office on the southern edge of Houston. On the trail ride, cowpokes draw a crowd | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle On Tuesday, Davis and about 200 other cowpokes from the Southwest Trailriders Association ambled along highways to join 12 other groups…
A Week and a Day…
It was just eight days ago that I took myself off on my annual Birthday/Photo Roadtrip. This image is one of the ones I captured on that day. This shot was taken in San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge but it could have been taken in a number of other locations…
Bryan Beach
More from my birthday roadtrip... This photo was taken at about the location of the cross hair on the map below, facing west across the Brazos River. The white smudge on the horizon is smoke from one of the many grass fires that were burning that day along the coast.…
Surfside Beach
From my Wednesday drive... Deserted beaches are why I spend my birthday watching waves...Texas winter weather is what makes it worthwhile. Handbook of Texas Online - SURFSIDE BEACH, TX SURFSIDE BEACH, TEXAS. Surfside Beach, also known as Surfside and Follett's Island, at the mouth of the Brazos River on the…
Pre Birthday Photo Road Trip/Beach Meditation Muse
No matter what the weather brings tomorrow, I will spend the day on my annual photo road trip/beach meditation party. This will be the third annual event. A holiday from work I present to myself. A day of wandering the countryside of my life. If the prognosticators are right, the…
Mid-January, Mid-Week, Mid-life Muses
The pace at work since the new year has been quite frantic. I find myself sleeping late almost every morning. It's cutting down on my musing time as I have my toast and coffee each morning. Some mornings it seems like I barely get through the email and important reader…
TGIF – Looking forward to December
We seem to be having another of those foggy fall mornings...The temperature is predicted to be rising through the weekend. I have even heard predictions of 70's this weekend. So it looks like fall has teased us again. Just another example of the many changes life puts us through. Life…
Floyd, Virginia Memories…
The Floyd Country Store on a frosty Sunday morning. The Jacksonville Cemetery in the foreground. The Barbershop... The Stoplight... Farmer's Supply... Oddfella's Cantina...
Memories of a trip…
I passed this old farm as we drove south on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Floyd to Boone. I nestled down a bit off the road behind a line of round hay bales. Just enough of a glimpse out of the passenger side window to force me to turn around…
Photo Friday – Travel
This week's challenge: 'Travel'. Eight States, ten Days, 1750 miles, five hotel rooms, from heat to freezing to fall comfortable to snow to fall comfortable. That's Travel...And here's my Vacation Slideshow for proof... . Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to…
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog…
Pushed through to home last night and arrived about 10pm...I see why I have a love/hate relationship with the American Interstate Road system. While they let you cover immense distances in a single day they are essentially...boring. Long corridors through the countryside, shut off from the real world by a…
Goodbye North Carolina…
One of the places I have tried to hit in North Carolina for a number of years has been Roaring Creek off of 19E out of Elk Park. Roaring Creek tumbles off the southeast side of Roan Mountain feeding the North Toe River. Each year something has come up to…
Misty, Rainy Fall Day
I cannot complain about the weather here in northwestern North Carolina on this autumn day. The rain, light as it is, is desperately needed. But it sure puts a "damp-er" on the quest for pictographs. Of course any trip to this area by the Boyd's means a stop at the…
Mother Nature Saved Some Autumn Color For Me…
As we left Virginia behind today Mother Nature gave me a perfect picture postcard view of Mabry Mill. Actually the two colorful trees in the background are about the only two left in the vicinity with much color but they were in the right place at the right time for…
Today I walked a slow road…
A while back I wrote a review for Fred First's, A Slow Road Home, at the time we had only met on the pages of each others blogs and through the exchange of emails. This is what I wrote back then... Today for lunch I joined a friend I've never…
Unexpected Sight on the Parkway…
Driving South on the Parkway through Humpback Rocks brought a surprise this afternoon... It must have come down pretty good overnight since it had been melting for a while by the time we got there. But everyone traveling up the Parkway was having a lot of fun playing in the…
Saturday and a Crooked Road
We spent yesterday at Jefferson's Monticello... Today we head south down the Blue Ridge to a introduction to Floyd, Va...See ya down the road.
Boy did we make a wrong turn…
No not really. It just hit me that it made more sense to run the Interstate up to the terminus of our trip and then begin working our way south rather than vice versa. It should cut almost a days drive off the trip home this way... So yesterday was…
Wednesday On a Cold, Cold Mountain
Sunrise this morning was spent at Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The weather was clear and cold. I didn't know how cold until I got back in the car to drive back down...The temperature was 19°. Here's what I saw as the sun came over the horizon... And…
Tuesday Morning Fun
I closed yesterday with a shot of sunset so lets open the day with the morning sunrise fro the other side of Asheville... Heading back to breakfast I stopped at the French Broad River Overlook and caught this... Now its time to get ready for the Biltmore Estate and any…
Monday Mountains…
We drove into the darkness on Sunday to get to Birmingham. The only observations from the drive on Sunday were we both commented on how dry Mississippi looked. It was a noticeable change right at the state line. The roadside went from green in Louisiana to brown looking in Mississippi.…
A Sunday Drive…
I am just finishing up with email and all before I throw the final items (like this computer) into the car. We are hitting the road in the next hour or so for our first stop in or around Birmingham. We could probably go further but we don't have anything…
Musing another week closer to the mountains…
The long overdue trip into the Blue Ridge Mountains is almost here (knock on wood). I almost feel like I shouldn't even think about it unless I jinx the whole affair. This trip is about as unstructured (and unplanned) as any we have ever done. No kids(?), no agendas, just…
End of the week musing…
The weather out is delightful, even the humidity has fallen below 90%. Morning temperature is 64°. The skys are clear and the day has yet to break. We should be heading into a beautiful weekend. It could be time for a photo road trip... ++++++++++ Well...It looks like the Industrial…
