So, I will do a quick overview of Morocco before delving into each city. Last night we all said our good-byes and, today, I started returning to hermit mode. Stayed to myself and flew from Casablanca to Lisbon. Overall, it was a good group with lots of fun people, but, in the end, being around…
As I stepped through the door from customs into the greater Casablanca area, I realized that no one was there to meet me and, once again, the feeling of “What the Hell am I doing?” washed over me. I realized that I do this to myself intentionally and, like being unable to travel at all,…
Seems fitting to post this on February One… So, last week I had to be in south Georgia any way and I decided to dip down to Tallahassee to shoot the State Capitol & Governor’s Mansion (see the State Caps page). I was surprised to NOT find a Confederate memorial on the grounds, but owing…
Are you tired of bookends yet? I know I am. So I’ll refrain from using that metaphor again. However, I had 3 encounters that brought back that landmark decision wherein “separate but equal” was found to be the steaming pile of shite that it was. Rah! Rah! So, my first encounter was in Farmville, Virginia…
Many of us are aware of the famous sit-in at the FW Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC. It rocked the world. Not so many were aware of the Friendship Nine who staged a similar protest at the McCrory’s lunch counter in my mother’s hometown of Rock Hill, SC. Now considered a suburb of Charlotte, Rock Hill…
If you ever want to see a lot of Civil Rights landmarks, just go to Alabama. Not sure if they’re the worst at Civil Rights or if they’re just willing to own up to their failures, but they sure have lots of memorials, museums and other sites. Still, considering the support for Roy Moore, they…
This trip began with one plan; morphed into another plan; but then has come full circle back to the original plan. Of course, life will do that to ya, just before it goes off in another direction. Nonetheless, when you travel you must be open to whatever comes at you and I didn’t appreciate my…
The Bobby Hotel in Nashville is a boutique hotel with a very interesting look. The halls have maintained some minimalist/industrial (aka cheap) look but with enough added to hold down ambient noise. Very important in a hotel in my egotistic opinion. In fact, I think it’s important in more places than it is applied. /
Or how I went from hunting Civil Rights Landmarks to State Capitols. So, I started this trip with the best of intentions, to view Civil Rights Landmarks and then, somewhere along the line it switched. I was all about it through Georgia and into SC… Charleston, but then I got upstate and many of the…
Happy 2019 and welcome to v2.0 of my blog. Today I switched from WebsiteBuilder to WordPress and I am still learning how to use the various features, but I hope to better integrate pictures with my text as well as allow interactions with you, dear reader, via comments. Despite the popularity and efforts of the…