The Big Hike to Hawksbill Mountain
I never posted the pictures from the Big Hike last fall. It was a one mile hike to the top of a mountain that stood tall along the Blue Ridge mountain range. Towards the end of the hike the trail was nearly straight up the side of the mountain! The views from the top of Hawksbill Mountain […]
Falls in the Graveyard Fields
I love discovering new places on the blue ridge parkway. Some places are a long and difficult hike to get to, others are just a quick walk down some wooden stairs. The quick walk down the wooden stairs at Graveyard Fields led to a peaceful rocky stream. I would have liked to stay here and […]
Graveyard Fields
Somewhere along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a little south of Asheville, is a meadow called Graveyard Fields. There isn’t a gravestone in sight though. The name came from a vast amount of trees that had been snapped in half during a violent storm and then resembled graves. But that was many many years ago. […]
Driving on Mars
During the dive away from the Grand Canyon, towards northern Arizona, the landscape grew more and more like nothing I had ever seen. Around every curve was an entire new world. It was a valley, with sharp red cliffs rising up to the sky. Then around just another curve, the road was on the top […]