Tag: road trip
Empire State Road Trip
With summer in full swing, some friends and I have thrown around ideas for a seasonal road trip. Being on the East Coast, beach-side options are aplenty, within a few hours’ drive in either direction.
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Driving Through Southern Portugal
I don't know about you, but I need a break from the overwhelming volume of pandemic stories, so I'm going to return to my travelogue series on our trip through Spain and Portugal last fall. The day after my adventures in a Lisbon ER, we were due to drive from that city through the Alentejo region to Badajoz, a mid-sized city just over the border in Spain. Although we could have taken a major freeway most of the way there, we chose to stick primarily to two-lane highways which took us through agricultural landscapes and the historic city of Evora.
A Father-Son Scenic Drive in Virginia
A few months ago my son Grant and I took a road trip to North Carolina by way of Virginia. As we traveled south on I-81, we decided to take a side trip through Shenandoah National Park, along the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-central Virginia. These mountains form a distinct highland rising to elevations above 4,000 feet. The crest of the range divides the Shenandoah River drainage basin, part of the Potomac River drainage, on the west side from the James and Rappahannock river drainage basins on the east side. One of the park’s main distinctions is it is home to the largest population of black bears in the country. Much to our disappointment, we did not see any on our drive.
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Weekend Getaway
A couple weeks ago, my friends and I planned a last-minute, much-needed weekend trip up to the mountains. My friend Kelly has a house on Lake Hauto, located right outside of Jim Thorpe. Kelly and I drove up Friday night, and our friends Taylor and Lexi came Saturday morning.