YellaWood on the inside field at Talladega Speedway Winning tickets for the Yellawood 500 NASCAR Race on October 2, 2022, was a surprise. As a native Alabamian, I had never attended a NASCAR race. Before the trip to ‘Dega,’ I...
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Musings: The Short Happy Pursuit of Pleasure and Other Journeys
Book Recommendation Musings by Joseph Rosendo Joseph Rosendo, the Emmy winner and internationally known travel guru of PBS’s Travelscope draws from his extensive travel history to delight readers with stories from his 40 years of travel. Musings is a compellation...
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Texas Titans, the friendship of George Bush and James Baker
https://roadrunnerjourneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Texas-Titans-Cover-1.pdf TEXAS TITANS I had the pleasure of previewing a soon to be released book, Texas Titans by Charles Denyer. I am a student of presidential history and enjoyed learning about the incredible friendship these two titans of the political...
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Flexibility in Washington DC, Exploring the Historic City during a Shutdown
http://shortweeks-longweekends.com/flexibility-in-washington-dc-exploring-the-historic-cit
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From the Civil War History to World War II Preservation, 48 Hours in Vicksburg, Mississippi Part 1
I arrived in Vicksburg, Mississippi just after lunchtime in time to attend the Spring Pilgrimage tour of some of Vicksburg’s best B&Bs and historical residences. The Vicksburg Bed and Breakfast Association sponsored this tour each year in late March and...
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72 hours in and around Willamette Valley, Oregon
With no time to lose when I landed in Portland, OR, I grabbed my bag, jumped in an Uber and headed to Vancouver, WA to claim my Enterprise rental car. I was in town to attend the Travel and Words...
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New posting at Short Weeks-Long Weekends
http://shortweeks-longweekends.com/four-must-see-civil-rights-museums-in-montgomery-alabama/
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World War 1 Museum
An article published last year on the World War 1 museum. https://www.milesgeek.com/national-world-war-1-museum
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FLY
FLY Fly Written by Trey Ellis and Richardo Khan, Fly follows the stories of four Tuskegee Airman during their Army Air Corp pilot training. Chet, Oscar, J. Allen, and W.W. have their own reasons for joining up but the one...
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Chicago, Chicago!
Chicago 48 HOURS IN CHICAGO Chicago in early November is bound to be cold because you expect the wind off Lake Michigan but you don’t expect 24 degrees and snow. Two good friends and I were in town for a...
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