There are gypsies in the palace
Well we did it. We found a great little house to rent for a bit. Something to call home. After drifting about freely for over three years we decided we wanted a “home base”. Now this doesot mean our travels and journey has ended. We justow have a place where we...
Another fork in the road
While Sharon and her sister, Rachie, were driving around Port Charlotte the day after Hurricane Charlie had hit they literally hit a fork in the road. They had to get out and pry it from the tire. Little did we know how symbolic that would prove to be as we hit a huge...
One Cold Hand
Recently I saw an article about a woman in Pittsburgh that has been collecting single gloves that have been lost in the hopes of posting them on the internet in the hopes someone will recognize one as their own and she can reunite the pair of gloves. She titled her...
Christmas Vacation: Over the highways and through the states, to . . .
Somewhere in Tennessee: Our first destination ended up being a small somewhat dirty motel. An America’s Best Inns I believe. It had a free breakfast, old coffee, very stale muffins, fruit loops and brownish-orange juice. Nothing too appealing except for the Fruit...
Dan “the Man” Memorial • 1976 – 2007
On Christmas Eve 2007, a good friend of mine passed on from this earth. He was a great guy who has many friends and family that will miss him dearly. He passed in the manner everyone wants to go. Peacefully in his sleep, but WAYYY WAY too young. Age 31. It is with...
Back in Port Charlotte for a spell.
I am sorry to report there has beenothingotable to write about recently. Things have been pretty mundane sitting here. We have launched aew web business to help benefit the ASPCA. We are asking for people to submit their pet photos for a chance to win $150 for first...
Orlando, Florida; The good and the bad.
Seems like Orlando always serves up interesting times. As I do every year we photographed the Miss American Coed National Pageant over Thanksgiving. It went off without a hitch this year as we worked in a different capacity this time. All I had to do was show up, take...
Dothan, Alabama: Making out with a stranger 🙂
Okay, first off Ieed to explain the making out with a stranger statement. We were listening to the Lex and Terry morning show and they were trying to find guys to go make out with a girl who called into the show. It was complete with a “play-by-play” done on a cell...
Denver, Colorado: A mile high high!
More photos from Rocky mountain National Park >> The time had come that I traveled somewhere without Sharon and the dogs. It was actually harder than I thought as I haveever traveled without her since we met. I missed them dearly. The adventure this time was with my...
Pensacola, Florida . . . still 🙂 Hanging out in limbo
View Pensacola Gallery >> Since we have decided to settle down in Pensacola and stop full time traveling in Jan., we have felt like we are in limbo until then. We have been looking at homes to see if we could find one we like, but without being able to do anything...
Pensacola, Florida: Thinking of settling down?!?!
View Pensacola Photo Gallery>> We have made it back to Pensacola. Staying again out in Pace/Milton area at our friend Bryan’s house again. Not much going on so far. Kinda lame I know, butowhereew to explore :( I had been selected as a featured artist of the...
Charleston, South Carolina: The holy city full of pubs and ghosts
View Charleston Photo Gallery>> We loved, LOVED Charleston. We had such a good time there. It is so much fun to explore such a historic city. We parked the Cruisemaster in our friend Kevin’s apartment complex parking lot and stayed at his place for the week. He was a...
Mocksville, North Carolina: Back on the wine trail 🙂
Continuing on ouration-wide wine trail we stopped again in the wine producing region of Yadkin Valley, NC. We didot have much timeor funds so we had to hit just a select few vineyards and Raylen was first on the list. It was a veryice vineyard with a very classy...
Raleigh, North Carolina
We were within two hours driving distance to my best friend Mark’s house where he and his wife Dana, and daughter Maddie live just outside Raleigh. They have a great house, and the best thing was the upper loft room, which was huge and PERFECT for an artist studio!&...
Baltimore, Maryland: Hanging with Nanny 🙂
View Baltimore Photo Gallery>> When we visit Baltimore, it is mainly about seeing Nanny. She is Sharon’s grandmother and a wonderful soul. I feel as if she were really my grandmother too, I love her dearly. This time we got to spend a lot of time with her because we...
Ocean City, Maryland: A sister reunion 🙂
As some of you may remember from a previous blog (October at Styx River)Sharon found a sister she hadever met, Elise, through the website MySpace. It was pretty emotional and something that I’llever forget. This past week her other sister Rachael was turning the big...
Deal Island, Maryland: The fountain of youth!
View Deal Island Photo Gallery>> Wellot a lot happened while at Deal Island. We did have a bunch of people staying at the in-laws and had a great time. Some drama surfaced but fizzled out pretty quickly.. Sometimes can happen when you get all the Harp/Byrd women in...
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: What the hell did she just say!?!?!?!?!
We made it to Harrisburg without any problems, other than me getting into a small fight at Roy Rogers fast food restaurant. As i was in line the older gentlemen in front of me became irate with the cashier because she made a mistake. Instead of three roast beefs and...
Donegal, Pennsylvania: The Allegheny Rain Forest
Whew! Thank god that day was over. The day we had getting to PA was grueling. CD burner screwing up when on a very tight deadline. Changing a tire in pouring rain. Getting the RV stuck turning around. Semi-lost. Setting up in pitch blackness, getting muddy, etc, etc,...
Cincinnati, Ohio: My homecoming
View Cincinnati Photo Gallery>> Well I first have to apologize as this blog is going to take a bit to write as I am behind and a lot of things have happened this trip. So many in fact they have left meo time to write but once I get back on the road I will get caught...
Batesville, Indiana: Another state, another wine trail 🙂
Indiana was aice stay. The Thousand Trails, Indian Lakes wasot one we particularly liked. It had a lot of locals that essentially lived on the property for the summer. Which since they felt like it was home were just out of control. They justy thought they could let...
Bowling Green, Kentucky: On the Bourbon Trail
View Kentucky Photo Gallery>> Bowling green was just a quickight stay over. We did get to eat at one of our top Thai Restaurants. Proved to be worthy of that rating too. Staying at Diamond Caverns wasice, we had stayed there before. It had lots ofice walking paths,...
Nashville, Tennessee: The heart of country music
As luck would have it there was a wineryear our RV park so we just had to visit it. It was the Long Hollow Winery. Veryice tasting room, but it wasotear a vineyard. The hostess for the evening was veryice, young and very quick witted. And seemed to be in fast forward,...
Hohenwald, Tennessee: Where the hell is the damn “Trace”!?!?!?
View Hohenwald Photo Gallery>> Well after making a few turnarounds in some country church parking lots we finally made it to the Thousand Trails Natchez Trace. As usual that place was out in the middle ofowhere, but what a better opportunity to explore a good small...
Alabama: Ao brewpubs state!?!?!
View Alabama Photo Gallery >> Montgomery: We only spent oneight in Montgomery, so there really isot much to write about. Other than the RV Park we stayed at, had some pretty sad looking RVs in it. It is hard to see people living in such horrible conditions. I realize...
