Columbia, South Carolina: Geocaching

June 24-27, 2022 The oldest cache in South Carolina is near Augusta, Georgia, about 60 miles from where we were staying in Columbia. We took a day trip. The cache is located along Modoc Trail, a 5-mile mountain biking trail in the Sumter National Forest. The cache was about 500 Read more

Charlotte, North Carolina

June 21 – 24, 2022 Mostly our visit to Charlotte was about geocaching, but Jane took the opportunity to meet up with a very good friend she knew in Fort Pierce. Marlowe Weingart lives in Asheville and Jane and Marlowe met in Morganton about halfway between their locations. Who remembered Read more

Blacksburg, Virginia

June 18 – 21, 2022 Blacksburg was about family. And a special geocache. Jane’s cousin Rosemary (Rosie) Higdon lives in Blacksburg. Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy drove up from Chattanooga to make the weekend a mini family reunion. Oh, and the fun included Rosie’s Golden Retrievers Peak and Willie Read more

Charleston, West Virginia

June 15-17, 2022 The Capitol The West Virginia capitol was designed by architect Casa Gilbert who also designed the Woolworth building in New York as well as the Minnesota and Arkansas capitols. Construction was begun in 1924 and proceeded in three phases: The west building, the east building and the Read more

Louisville, Kentucky: Kentucky Capitol

June 13, 2022 Kentucky is one of four commonwealths (from commonweal, meaning common good). We might slip and call it a state, though. Architect Frank Mills Andrews designed the building in the beaux arts style. Cost was $1,820,000. Statue of Abraham Lincoln under the rotunda. By the way, if we Read more

Nashville, Tennessee

June 6-12, 2022 One of our favorite discoveries in Nashville was a monument erected by the Ladies Battlefield Memorial Association in 1926. It’s almost hidden by vegetation between a major highway (Franklin Pike) and an apartment building. We walked a couple of hundred feet from a dead end street to Read more

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Boating

May 27 – June 6, 2022 Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy have an 18-foot Bennington pontoon boat and they treated us to rides on several waterways near Chattanooga. Our first excursion was to Chatuge Lake near the Georgia/North Carolina border. We took two rides on the Tennessee River. We Read more