Denny G's Road Trips

No Pavement Required

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:07:56 -0500

Not surprisingly, I've gotten behind but I do now have the journal for Tuesday posted. We had no luck finding a Lee-Dixie marker but we did found the old sugar mill and made it all the way on the brick road north of Espanola.

A Wee Bit O' Dixie Loop

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:30:28 -0500

We took a look at a short stretch of the Dixie Highway Tampa-St. Petersburg Loop.

Reminiscing

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:19:45 -0500

I warned of reports with only a thermometer and now I deliver.

A Taste of the Dixie

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:39:32 -0500

I drove a few miles of the Dixie Highway and discovered a Citurs Center.

Bunkin' with Unk

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:57:29 -0500

An uncle who spends much of the winter in Florida was kind enough to invite me to stay with him for a few days. So there's a road trip involved and there will be some exploring on the Dixie Highway though when or how much I don't know. I fully intend to be lazy and enjoy the warmth so it's possible a daily report might consist of nothing more than a close up shot of a thermometer.

South from the Wrong Turn

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:48:57 -0500

When I learned that the state of Ohio contains a monument to Robert E Lee which I've driven right by without even seeing, I decided to spend a clear (but very cold) day investigating. Missing the monument was partly the result of some wrong ideas about Dixie Highway routing which I also tried to correct.

Back to Cincy

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:51:34 -0500

I drove by Opryland then followed the Jackson Highway north to where I left it on Thursday. From there, expressways brought me home.

Merry Christmas on Broadway

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:04:44 -0500

I took a look at the Occupy Nashville crowd then checked out Christmas on Broadway.

Merry Christmas plus A Cotton Tale

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:26:25 -0500

I ducked over the Alabama line for a wonderful visit with long time friends.

Merry Christmas to All

At Nashville's Mercy

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:44:43 -0500

No real rain today but plenty of clouds and a few sprinkles. I toured the Jack Daniel's distillery and visited downtown Lynchburg before heading to Nashville for a show at the Mercy Lounge.

Rain, Riders, and Rope

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:08:05 -0500

It rained pretty much all day but I did cover that missing stretch of Dixie Highway then walked to my room after watching team roping practice. Never did that before.

I didn't mention it yesterday (mostly because I hadn't created it yet that there is a blog entry associated with the trip for the purpose of catching coments. It's here:
http://www.dennygibson.com/blog/2011/12/christmas-escape-trip/

Bats, Blunderbusses, and Bourbon

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:13:53 -0500

I started my Christmas Escape Run in Louisville with visits to a couple of museums and a really cool store. Then it was off to Bardstown for the night. The trip overview is here: http://www.dennygibson.com/cer2011/

Dickens of a Christmas

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:47:00 -0500

At Christmas time each year, the recreated nineteenth century village at the Ohio History Center is decorated and populated to represent something from Charles Dickens' time. I was there on Friday and have some pictures and words here: http://www.dennygibson.com/oddment/dickensc2011/ It's an Oddment and, as promised, there is an associated blog entry here: http://www.dennygibson.com/blog/2011/12/dickens-of-a-christmas/ It is only the second Oddment posted since the blog was added in August and it's clear that there is some overlap between the two. Some of the existing Oddments would probably be blog entries if done today and some of the blog entries might have made Oddment pages in pre-blog days. I think we're all better off not worrying about that.

Blog and Email Revisited

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:17:37 -0400

A major activity at DennyGibson.com is the trip reports that have been appearing for a dozen years. Another is the blog entries that have been appearing for a couple of months. Both offer an RSS feed and both offer a mechanism for getting notifications via email. For the trip reports that mechanism is an email list that can be subscribed to here. For the blog, that mechanism is a different email list that can be subscribed to through the blog's home page here.

When the blog first began, Feedburner was offered as a way to get emailed blog entries. That method is no longer actively supported and existing subscriptions may or may not continue to work.

I've been kind of struggling with the relationship between the trip reports and the blog. Here is what I'm currently thinking. The blog is not confined to road trips. I intend to post to the blog at least every Sunday. I want to have a blog post associated with each trip or oddment to provide a place to comment on that trip or oddment. To date, when I've been on the road on a Sunday, I've posted something trip related as a sort of placeholder. This has resulted in multiple blog posts for a trip and some are rather silly. From now on, each Sunday post will be a "real" one and each trip or oddment will get a single post. If something occurs during the week that I think interesting and I have time to write it up, that will be the Sunday post. If not, I'll use a canned article like those in the "My Gear" series. If a trip starts on a Sunday, there could be two posts for that day. I've always said that once a week was the lower not upper limit.

The First One Hundred

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:11:17 -0400

The trip just ended was the 100th documented at DennyGibson.com. This milestone is noted in today's blog entry.

An Island in the Stream

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:54:40 -0400

Rain stayed away long enough to tour the reconstructed mansion on Blennerhassett Island then stayed with me for two-thirds of my crossing of Ohio. I was home at the end of the day.

A Little Damp

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:06:00 -0400

It rained off and on for much of the day. It was never heavy but the lack of sun on the red and yellow leaves was disappointing. Stumbling on to the remains of a stone US-50 bridge made up for it a little.

George's Stuff

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:06:54 -0400

I spent much of the day at Mount Vernon and the nearby mill and distillery but I did get back to US-50 and did get started west.

The Other Concert

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:44:44 -0400

I followed US-50 all the way to DC and even walked on the mall for a bit. The all expressway style US-50 wasn't very thrilling but the day ended on a high note when I walked into a concert just by telling some guy my name.

To Ocean City

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:02:37 -0400

I had breakfast at a cool diner then endured a lot of expressway and commercial clutter to reach Ocean City.