A light effect from riding my motorcycle in the Walker Mountain tunnel on I-77 with a camera mounted on the handlebars.
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Labor Day weekend brings the annual Hillsville Gun Show and Flea Market — easily the mother of all flea markets and an event that turns the sleepy Carroll County Town into a bustling city of thousands upon thousands packing the streets, parking in yards and open fields and rummaging through junk, out-of-stock merchandise, whatnots and [...]
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Took off early Friday morning for a two-hour ride down past Danville to Alton, Virginia — home of Virginia International Raceway (VIR) — but that two hour motorcycle ride was really a trip into my past more than 40 years ago. VIR was one of many sports car tracks in the nation in the late [...]
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Floyd County High School’s varsity football team rebounded from a season-opening loss last week to Christiansburg by stomping Rural Retreat 48-20 Friday night for the home opener. Dorian Harris (above), aided by key blocking, shredded the RR defense with rushing touchdowns while the Buffalo defense stepped up (below) with key quarterback sacks an solid wall [...]
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New this year on Floyd’s ever-expanding music scene is the Thurday night series of concerts at Hotel Floyd. At a time when the cost of enjoying music is going up at some venues, the Hotel Floyd series if free to the public and features popular area bands with a mix of music. Franklin County bluegrass [...]
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Virginia’s Department of Transportation (VDOT) is an all-but-missing entity in Floyd County since the department reorganized and shut down the Hillsville residency office earlier this year and transferred us to the Christiansburg residency. Since the reorganization and forced retirement of longtime resident administrator Bob Beasley, VDOT can’t be bothered with sending a representative to meet [...]
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Fog greeted me early Sunday as I headed out on the Blue Ridge Parkway for an extended ride down into North Carolina for breakfast. By lunch, I was off the Parkway and into West Virginia for an afrernoon meal at Pipestem State Park. By day’s end, I was back on the Parkway and the sunset, [...]
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Saturday dawned foggy and cool. If I had any illusions about using the day for a long, comforting, therapeutic motorcycle ride, those fantasies disappeared under the reality of the need to mow out long-neglected lawn — aka “the south 40.” If our lawn were a kid, I’d be in jail for child abuse. It’s overgrown, [...]
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