Fall 2012

Southeast US

Back to mostly familiar territory doing bluegrass festivals and getting a taste of southern food while getting to meet wonderful down to earth people who talk 'funny'.

Assateague Island boardwalk

Near Ocean City, MD. What we have here is a combination of people from at least 3 bluegrass bands doing an impromptu jam.

A summer home on a lake in western NC

Truck Show in Charlotte, NC. All of them, well except for the old ones, are daily working trucks.

Somehow I can't see this being used to haul diesel around

Remember 'Smokey & the Bandit'? Here is the truck still looking good

The old & the not so old. The red one is almost 60 years old.

Can you believe this!!! Like nothing has ever been touched

The outside is just as clean

The GRRRRR that makes them move

In the mountains near Ashville, NC

Turn around & this is the sight

A damp & chilly 30 something on the mountaintop. No view today

Fall colours only just beginning to turn along a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway

When one engine isn't quite enough, no problem, add two more. The VA State Fair, Raleigh, NC.

The Myrtle Beach, SC cleanup dept, airborne division, doing a flyby.

Best part of a bluegrass festival is the jamming after the formal show. Performers & amateur musicians get in there & learn from each other.

Hmmmmm, now what could be in here?

How about this fellow. He walked onto the property the day before.

What can be  said? Yes, it does exist. It will put hair on places you never knew it would grow. 

Here piggy piggy piggy piggy

She watched the pig roasting proceedings for hours

And then came the picking the thing apart

Just what everyone needs, a BBQ on wheels

Sisters. On the left, only 14.

Severn Marine workboats & Knapps Narrows Bridge

Our usual slip

Downtown Oxford, MD

The Oxford General Store

No escape from home. Texting Jenny

Boardwalk on Assateague Island, VA

Wild horses & access bridge, Assateague Island

Assateague sunset. Clouds formed from jet contrails.

Boulder, Colorado back to Maryland

Boulder, Colorado (map wp55)

back to

Tilghman, Maryland (map wp88)

Usually a stop in Boulder, Colorado to visit our friends Bill & Pearl is a stop to look forward to. Not this time. We have lost count of how many times we have been here. suffice to say that the area is known well enough that we stopped needing a map to get around a long long time ago.

Bill, at 87, was not in a good way when we arrived & he was in a hospice when we got there. This is a man who went downhill skiing right up till last year, 2011. If only the rest of us could stay so healthy so long. He hung on for about a week after we got there & passed the night Jenny & Jason arrived, unfortunately as we were on our way to the hospice after picking them up from the airport.

Another member of 'The Greatest Generation' is no longer with us.

Though the reason for Jenny & Jasons visit was somber it was good to see them in the middle of a long trip & they both got a chance to do a little of that favourite Bermuda pastime, shopping.

A thunderstorm rolls in from over the mountains

St Vrain State Park, Longmont, CO

There is something different about a high altitude
thunderstorm to a sea level one. Much more noise.
The rumble goes on & on

 One unexpected stop was Rocky Mountain National Park & a day doing the
15 mile Fall River Rd which is all gravel, one way, parts no more than 10' wide
& limited to vehicles no longer than 22' i.e. our truck.

Huge rock slide

Above the tree line Rocky Mtn NP

Safety barriers! We don't need no safety barriers

A second time at this bluegrass festival high in the mountains
at Westcliff, CO.

The winner of the ugly boat competition, Land between the Lakes, TN

Boat porn: A line of Sabres at the Maine builders boat show, Rockland, ME

Rockland, ME

Did you ever wonder what becomes of old buses?

Norwich, CT: The Podunk Bluegrass Festival

Best part of this festival was the jamming in the car park after the show.

The right outfield never sounded so good

A New Hampshire barn

This one was a surprise. The entrance to this commercial CG looked like a bit of a dump.  The stream side sites were among the most beautiful that we have seen in any National or State Park









The resident dropped food clean up squad.