So, I am fully vaccinated and before they tell me that I have shed all my antibodies I’m getting on a plane!!! Certain eye problems have slowed me down so this may not actually take place until late June, but I have been making road trips. Two favorites within a 3 hour drive are St…
Back from 2 weeks in South Florida around the Everglades. Visited some old sights, too. Not much to write about, so just look at the pictures. Related Images:
So I started this trip to south Florida back in early November, but got to the first night and started seeing swirls & floaters in my right eye. This led to eye surgery, the holidays & in early January started back out on a modified itinerary. On the first day of the 2nd attempt trip,…
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…
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…