Travel

This is the fourth and final installment of photos from last summer's trip to the coast. (You can also see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.)When I visited with my family in eastern Kentucky, we drove up to Breaks Park, which is located in the mountains along the Kentucky/Virginia border. I got a few pictures on that trip.To start with, we're in the mountains, so constructing … [Read more...] about Coastal Dash 2012 Travelogue – Part 4

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of my roadtrip from last summer. (Here are Part 1 and Part 2)On the way from New Jersey to Kentucky I stopped in the D.C. area to meet some friends I used to work with, and then the next day my wife and I met up with Feral Genius Jennifer Abel, who'd just recently moved there.Then we headed south to Front Royal, Virginia, … [Read more...] about Coastal Dash 2012 Travelogue – Part 3

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of my roadtrip from last summer. (Part 1 is here.)When I went to Avalon in 2011, I was pretty disappointed in the pictures I took. I saw a lot of interesting spots filled with local color that seems a bit exotic to a Midwestern city boy like me. But I was in vacation mode and couldn't quite bring myself go out of my way to take … [Read more...] about Coastal Dash 2012 Travelogue – Part 2

I'm getting ready to start planning my next summer road trip, but I realized I never got around to posting anything about last summer's road trip.The trip started the same as any trip from Chicago must start: Stuck in traffic. I left home around 6pm on Friday, so I caught the tail end of the rush hour as I drove through downtown Chicago to get to Indiana. It was pretty … [Read more...] about Coastal Dash 2012 Travelogue – Part 1

I've been exchanging email with a few people about my upcoming dash to the coast at the end of the month. I have tentative plans with a couple of people, and for a little while it looked like Jamison Koehler was going to put together a blogmeet with some other DC bloggers, but that fell through because he's going to be out of town. It does look like I might make it a little … [Read more...] about Coastal Dash 2012 Update