Rocket
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Blue Ridges on Beech Mountain
I'll never get tired of the morning views at Slopeside on top of Beech Mountain. There's a reason the first thing I do when we arrive is set up the tripod so it's ready to go. It's a different painting every morning!
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The Fort Sumter House
In President Kennedy's own words: "They shipped my ass out of town to break us up."
I've always been fascinated by this building that just doesn't quite fit in South of Broad.
I did a little research on it and learned that President John F. Kennedy was stationed in Charleston for a brief period and spent three nights in this hotel turned condominium building with a former Miss Denmark who had connections to the Nazis. The FBI monitored the entire thing and reassigned him to a PT boat in the Pacific after sharing the information with his influential father.
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Lake Life
We spent the weekend on the lake celebrating the upcoming nuptials of our friend, Cullen. Great times were had by all! Congratulations in advance to Cullen and Courtney!
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Cumulonimbus
"That ain't a storm, Mate. This is a storm."
This photograph was captured with an iPhone and an Airbus A321.
Into the Fog
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CUN Arrival Ritual
There's nothing like stepping out of an air-conditioned airport in the tropics into a humid wall of heat. It hits you at once that you're not in Kansas anymore and that you've just begun an adventure.
Cancún International helps you get the trip started on the right foot by installing a bar ten feet from the exit to the airport. Yes, I know you can buy cheaper beer from just about anybody else, including the guy with the metal cart, the shuttle driver or the unofficial taxi driver but if you want a beer within 30 seconds of stepping foot outside in Cancún, the outdoor airport bar is the way to go. And it's our arrival tradition.
Stormy Wreck
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A River Runs Through It
We took a new hiking path on Beech Mountain last week and ended up on a very muddy, somewhat difficult path that ran alongside a creek that was pretty much a continuous waterfall for hundreds of yards (probably more but we had to turn around with no end in sight). We're going to have to push further next time to see if we can find the end of it. It probably feeds into the Elk River at some point way down the mountain.
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Sudden Change in Plans
Well, it is Amazon #PrimeDay ... Maybe it's best just to stay inside with a computer.
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