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…
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…
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…
June 12-14, 2022 We made a wrong turn on our way to the Kentucky capitol and found a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright and Rev. Jesse R. Zeigler of Louisville met on a ship. The house was built in 1910.
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…
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…
June 7, 2022 Construction began on the Tennessee capitol in 1845; the building opened in 1859. It is one of the oldest working capitols in the U.S. and was designed by William Strickland who helped establish the Greek Revival movement in this country.
May 27 – June 6, 2022 A cache with multiple locations celebrated the birthday of SuperNate, a local cache owner, and had us looking under the collar of every lamppost in the parking lot of a neighborhood WalMart. Turns out the final location was the same location as the first: Read more…
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…
May 27 – June 6, 2022 Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy were incredible hosts: They were great company, fed us, housed us (including Kaela the cat) when the trailer was being serviced, took us boating (and that’s another post) and made sure we had an opportunity to catch up Read more…