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31
May
Horn Creek Trail

Bike Ride at Horn Creek

With creekside riding and a view of distant ridges, the Horn Creek Trail at Lick Fork Recreation Area, Sumter National Forest, SC is one of the region's most pleasant mountain biking trails for just taking in the views.
5 min read
27
May
Canvas tents crowded together on mud and grass

At home with Jefferson Davis

A visit to Jefferson Davis’ home, Beauvoir, in Biloxi, Mississippi, is enhanced by the annual muster of reenactors, both Confederate and Union, for the weekend.
3 min read
26
May
Biking Hickory Knob

Mountain Biking at Hickory Knob

For both scenery and a technical challenge on your mountain bike, the Lakeview Trail at Hickory Knob Resort State Park in South Carolina offers a great ride.
5 min read
23
May
On the Baker Creek Mountain Bike Trail

Mountain Biking at Baker Creek

Scouting the Baker Creek Mountain Bike Trail in McCormick, South Carolina was a challenge, between ice storm damage and a lack of recent experience on steep terrain.
5 min read
06
May
Moments on a grassy hill with interpretive sign below

The First Public Walk in Britain: Calton Hill

One of the seven volcanic hills within Edinburgh, Calton Hill is an ancient cinder cone atop which the first public footpath in Great Britain was established, in 1775.
2 min read
02
May
Two lane road through a small rural English village with stone houses

Crossing Yorkshire

Crossing Yorkshire in a coach on a British Isles tour with John's parents, we barely scratched the surface of this moody, fascinating countryside.
2 min read
23
Apr
A spindly live oak with a massive trunk dwarfs people beneath its canopy

The Angel Oak

A stately ancient live oak thought to be more than 1,500 years old, the Angel Oak is on John's Island in the South Carolina Lowcountry near Charleston.
1 min read
12
Apr
Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR

The Mississippi Sandhill Crane

Bringing an endangered species back from the brink of extinction, the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge provides a success story for conservation.
6 min read
04
Apr
VW Westfalia in a wooded yard

Primrose, the Delivery Wagon

One of the best parts of owning a VW camper van is how versatile it can be. When Primrose isn’t home, we make use of her as our delivery vehicle for various projects.
3 min read
01
Apr
Sunset with silhouttes of cabbage palms and shades of orange and yellow against black

Nine More Nights in Primrose

With our first Primrose trip of 2014 behind us, we see how snowbird RVers live in Florida. Not like us!
3 min read