Recommended to me by my sister-in-law (and then vouched for by my father-in-law), đđȘđđ„: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is one of the most captivating memoirs Iâve read. Strayed’s prose is honest, vivid, and raw. Recounting her 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, she brings the reader along the…
Smithgall Woods State Park is an interesting mix of hemlocks, mountain laurels, pines, hardwoods, bogs, trout streams, and Caution Bees. Sadly I saw no live bears despite the promise given all the warning signs. What a tease. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful place and you should definitely visit at least once. The Caution Bees reminded me…
City and Colour is the stage name of Dallas Green (get it?) and he is one of those happy discoveries. “Two Coins” was on a shared playlist I created a long time ago with my wife and I thought she added the song. She thought I did. Eventually, I proved it was me. I just…
According to one source, this park is so named because a Cherokee family was being pursued by a war party, and after hiding his family, the father led the pursuers away. After being surrounded by the party the father threw himself from a cliff and onto the granite rocks below. The war party then went…
Yesterday I drove to Dockery Lake to hike the long way to Preachers Rock. 11.5 miles to the top and back by my GPS, though I’m starting to wonder if it’s miscalibrated. It’s strange to me that this has a Cleveland address as I feel like it should be Dahlonega or Suches instead. But I…
These pictures are from my sunrise hike on Currahee Mountain. The rest are just in the order in which I took them. This is the famous trail from the training episodes of the Band of Brothers miniseries that followed Easy Company in World War II. Currahee was the training camp for the 506th Parachute Infantry…
What is the first thing you think of when someone mentions ZZ Top? Okay, now that we’ve acknowledged the chest-length beards, what do you think of next? I imagine that casual fans perhaps think of mid-1980s classics like “Legs” and “Sharp Dressed Man.” Maybe you also think of Ford coupes and sheepskin-covered guitars as seen…
Fact: it’s not hard to sing a song better than Ozzy does it. I love Black Sabbathâparticularly the first five albumsâbut the strength of that band lies more in Geezer Butler and Bill Ward than anything. That’s not a dig on Tony Iommi or Ozzy Osbourne. At any rate, Charles Bradley doesn’t just do a…
I claw at my face(This storm will soon be lifting);It does me no good.