I took advantage of the fall time change to get an early start for an all-day wander over to Natural Bridge State Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a beautiful fall day and I had a great time roaming, exploring and creating. Take a look!
I know Halloween 2021 is a memory now, and we’re on to thinking about the next round of holidays. But a couple days before Halloween I checked out the Halloween Haunt at the Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell VA, and made a video about it. So let’s revisit the spooky for a little bit, […]
I’m launching a YouTube channel, so going forward posts here will mostly be companion posts to videos there. I hope you’ll subscribe and come along!
I spent the morning driving around Goochland and Cumberland counties, visiting the ruins of four different mill buildings. My first stop was Dover Mill, and the history here is just packed with astonishing details.
I’d been to Charleston before, but hadn’t spent any appreciable amount of time there. So when I had the opportunity to make it an overnight stop on a recent road trip, I jumped at the chance. One of the places I most wanted to check out was the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, primarily […]
I hit the road early this past Sunday morning for a proper wander–I had one initial destination in mind, and from there I thought I’d just explore and see where I ended up. And it turned out the answer was: Cumberland County, Virginia. It wasn’t a particularly long excursion, but I was pretty pleased with […]
For Memorial Day, I decided to make a day road trip to check out a few Civil War sites not too far afield. So I got up at my usual time, grabbed a quick breakfast, and hit the road! Nottoway Falls Park My first stop was definitely off-the-beaten-path. Not a Civil War site, but somewhere […]
I don’t know about you, but real-world travel hasn’t been much of a thing for me in the past year or so, for hopefully obvious reasons. And this post would probably have been more welcome earlier in the whole pandemic lockdown cycle, but the idea just came to me, sorry! My wife and I like […]
I’ve been using Canon dSLR cameras for about 15 years now–I started with a Rebel XT (350D), moved up to the 50D, and then to the 7D and then 7D Mark II. Over those 15 years I’ve put together a reasonably good collection of lenses as well, from modern Canon and third-party EF-mount lenses, to […]
As I mentioned, I recently acquired a new toy: a DJI Mini 2 drone. This thing is amazing, and opens up a whole new world of exploration, photography, and videography too. I naturally had to take it for a test run at the James River Pipeline Walkway, one of my favorite spots in Richmond. Check […]
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