A wonderful, if short, stay at Huntington Beach in South Carolina. [Show slideshow] 1234►
Chapel Hill Connections
Denise and I met in Santa Cruz in 1977. We’d both just arrived as fresh-faced young lesbians, right out of college, trying to figure out how we fit in to the bustling metropolis of a lesbian community that Santa Cruz…
Chapel Hill Photos
We spent a few days with an old friend in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [Show slideshow] 1234►
North Carolina Respite
We left the Smokies to stay for three nights in a Thousand Trails RV Park near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As much as I would have loved to explore the Smokies some more, this gave us a couple of days to…
Forest Lake Photos
We took a break from sightseeing and cleaned house in the Forest Lake Thousand Trails park in North Carolina. [Show slideshow]
Smoky Mountains
I remember driving through the Smoky Mountains with my family when I was a kid and looking down into a green valley at a log cabin with smoke drifting from the chimney and thinking, “That’s where I want to live.”…
Smoky Mountain Photos
One night and two days in the Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. [Show slideshow] 1234►
Lexington, Kentucky
After we visited the Shaker Village, we drove north for 30 minutes or so to Wildside Winery, which offers free overnight stays to members of Harvest Hosts. We got there in time for Kate to enjoy a wine-tasting flight and…
Lexington Photos
We stayed overnight at a winery near Lexington, Kentucky at reconnected with an old family friend. [Show slideshow]
Thinking Outside the Bag
I’m thinking about Paris. Wondering what it would be like to be having a wonderful time in the most romanticized city on earth and suddenly be in the midst of a one-way war. It’s hard not to dwell on the…
Shaker Village in Kentucky
We were in Cumberland Gap when I got a message from an old acquaintance and blog follower. She’d seen my write-up about Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts and suggested we check out some of the Shaker community museums. There was one…
Shaker Village Photos
We visited a Shaker Village museum near Lexington, Kentucky. [Show slideshow] 123►