Baja California: A Vacation Done the Right Way *Brian and Sylvia receive NO compensation of any kind from tour and service providers for appearances on this page. If we give a shout out, it’s entirely because we wanted to.* It was with a heavy heart that we left Cabo San Lucas and returned to Raleigh. There wasn’t much about our […]
We’re Back!
Brian and Sylvia celebrate their Tenth Wedding Anniversary We’re back from celebrating our Tenth Wedding Anniversary! Has it really been ten years? The typical gift given on the Tenth Anniversary is described as ‘tin or aluminum.’ Therefore we decided to give one another the gift of aluminum…in the form of an airplane fuselage, which we rode all the way to […]
More How to Spend Summer in the South
What To Do When It’s Too Hot To Hike: Part II In our last post we talked about some of the ways to beat the heat in the Carolinas. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, it’s awfully hot and buggy to be indulging in the sport of hiking. We do it anyway to keep in shape, trying to go as […]
Fun With Fitzroy: High Above Highlands
Cashiers and Highlands, NC: Part II Just down the road from Cashiers, NC is the town of Highlands. As its name implies, Highlands is quite high up there, being situated at 4118 feet above sea level. This makes it one of the highest elevation towns in the eastern United States. Tiny Beech Mountain, NC, is even higher (at over 5000 […]
An Unexpected Blast From the Past
The Golden State, back in our Golden Age I was recently rooting through some of my old photographs from the pre-digital and early digital age…the days when you still had to get pictures ‘developed’ before you could see them. I must admit I have no nostalgia for this age whatsoever. My purpose was to dig up so old pictures from […]
Paris: If We Had To Do It Over…
Paris: L’Essons L’Earned, or What We Learned NOT to Do from Four Days in the City of Light. **Becauseitzthere is typically a hiking and outdoor adventure blog. But from time to time we will feature other sorts of travel and leisure on these pages. In other words…fu fu travel. And it don’t get no more […]
The City of Light in Four Days, Part Three
Day 3 Paris: We finally Reach the Sommet! **Becauseitzthere is typically a hiking and outdoor adventure blog. But from time to time we will feature other sorts of travel and leisure on these pages. In other words…fu fu travel. And it don’t get no more fu than Paris.** For Day 3 of our stay in Paris we had clear weather […]
Tour du Mont Blanc: À la montagne, monsieur le chef de train!
TMB: A Travel Lesson It is ironic that the longest single part of the voyage – the 4,035 mile transatlantic flight to Paris – was also the most uneventful, even quite scenic…including my first glimpse of Ireland, lying green, resplendent and out of reach just thirty thousand feet below. It seemed the closer we got to our destination the more […]
The Old Dominion
News from the TMB and a Hike in Virginia We’re just back from the mountains of Virginia and we have good news regarding the Tour du Mont Blanc…the Refuge Flegere has accepted our reservation! This saves us from a lot of headaches on the final night of our hike. We were greatly disappointed by the closing (hopefully temporary) of the […]