If You Love Roller Coasters, Make Busch Gardens a Summer Destination

Almost everyone loves Disney World. I do, my wife does, and my children do. While my children and I still love the Disney experience, but we also love roller coasters, and there are no better assemblage of these rides in the South that are equal to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia. Busch Gardens is located on the south side US Hwy 60 North from Newport News where it is easily seen from the Highway as one drives toward Richmond or Norfolk. One cannot miss the Apollo's Chariot, which stands over 200 feet above the rolling Virginia Hills. One can easily see how one can see the James River, nearly two miles south, winding southeast toward the Norfolk Harbor. ... Read More

Once upon a time, in the middle of a large county there was a small town, and in the middle of the small town there was a thick, swampy, yet habitable wood, less than one mile away from a grocery store and hospital. That’s right, within walking distance to isles of processed foods and a brand new surgical center, sits an enchanted forest known as Mac’swood, where dozens of regular people live without fences, without gutters and, most importantly, without being haunted by suburban regret.

You see, even though Mac’swood residents spend a good portion of their days outside the wood, shopping at chain stores or working in cubicles, the privacy and shade of their neighborhood is always less than 10 minutes within reach, c... Read More

Beginning in Spring, We Stroll Through Winter

In this second article, we will examine a more familiar world - the one within our everyday reach. The world where I step from sheltering abode, and explore the realm that exists upon my property, whether I am there to witness it or not, it wakes upon the optimism of the rising sun, and feeds upon what it needs to exist.

When I no longer exist within this this plane of my existence, this environment of revolving color and smaller living beings will continue. Hopefully someone else will be around to record it, because we all need to be reminded of God's bountiful beauty, and search within our own boundaries to discover it.

One of the earliest flowers to bloom in early spring is from the a... Read More

On my last trip to the Outer Banks around Independence Day; more specifically Duck, North Carolina, I spent the afternoon in Corolla in Currituck County. Corolla is best know for a number of principal attractions; most notably: the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Whalehead Club, and the Wild Horses, the natural shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound. My concentration was on the lighthouse, the Whalehead Club and the sound.

Below are a number of pictures, with the obligatory captions, of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Whalehead Club, and the Currituck Sound. We only had a window of about 4 hours to travel to the area, and visit the aforementioned locales on the western shore of the island. Once again, I intend to v... Read More

The Grand Lady of the Old South is Preserved for Posterity

The most enduring commentary on Savannah's citizen's commitment to preserving their past, and the legacy of their ancestors, is the preservation of the park squares and the architecturally significant structures that are prevalent throughout the downtown of one of the South's busiest seaports. Savannah is located atop a bluff, along the southern banks of the Savannah River, in the low country along the northeastern shore of Georgia's abutment to the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1733, James Oglethorpe, a British General and philanthropic debtor prison activist, left his native land and sailed with 120 folks in the good ship Anne to Georgia, the last chartered colony in the colonial United S... Read More

Williamsburg is a Renovated Reminder of our Colonial Past

The Commonwealth of Virginia, along with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are the cradles of English civilization in the New World. Jamestown, Virginia was established in 1607, Plymouth Rock was established in 1620.

Jamestown served as the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia until the 1676, when the State House was burned during Bacon's Rebellion. The Commonwealth's government was temporarily relocated to Middle Plantation, which would later become the location of the College of William and Mary in 1694, and later the town of Williamsburg would be formed in 1699 here, adjacent to the college, to become the permanent capital after the capitol, located in Jamestown, burned a... Read More