Russell Cave National Monument | Noccalula Falls | Cheaha State Park, Alabama’s Highest Point | January 2023 On Thursday morning, we packed up our car once again and said goodbye to our last rental house of this trip. We drove North into Tennessee, took I-24 to Kimball, then went South on US-72 into Alabama. Our…
Visiting Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | January 2023 Just South of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River rises the imposing mass that is known as Lookout Mountain. This mountain (which is actually more a plateau) was the centerpiece of all of our day trips while staying in Chattanooga, so it’s worth talking about at…
Visiting Fort Loudon State Historic Park | Vonore, TN | January 2023 At this point during our stay in Tellico Plains, we had gone South, South West, and East, and so we decided that it was well time to go North. I laid out a plan to visit a couple historic spots, and then to…
Driving from Wilmington, NC to Asheville, NC | Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site | Morrow Mountain State Park | Fort Dobbs State Historic Site | Bunker Hill Covered Bridge | January 2022 On Saturday morning, it was time to end our short stay in Wilmington and begin our next adventure. We went for…
Grand Rapids, MI to Sandstone, WV | Hopewell Culture National Historical Park | Camping in New River Gorge National Park | January 2023 In planning our trip back to Wilmington and North Carolina, we decided that we should maximize time with family, knowing we would probably have most of January to site see. So we…
Guilford Courthouse NHS | Driving from NC to IA Day 1 | November 2022 On our last Friday in Wilmington, I texted Jess in the morning and indicated that there was a good chance that I would be done with class before noon. And while staying in a nice hotel on someone else’s dime was…