Pine Lake: The Blog

My  Car, Parked at the Phillips Motel. Ain't it Purty? The Miata is the best-selling two-seat convertible in history-- more than 900,...

When I got back to Robbinsville I was hot and tired. I'd been all day in the sun in the car-- but there was no time to cool off. It was...

I drove the 19 miles of the Foothills Parkway back to Hwy. 129. Along the way I finally got my view of the Tennessee Valley. That blue li...

When I came out of the Trail of the Dragon onto Chilhowee Lake, things looked familiar. Suddenly I knew where I was! I looked to my right...

Before 1992 it was just U.S. 129, a rarely-traveled sinuous mountain road that snaked its way 14 miles from Fontana Dam across Deal's...

It was cool until 1:30 am. That's when the air conditioner froze up. I climbed out of bed and turned the unit on fan and sat on the c...

The  Chereohala Skyway  is a 43-mile long national scenic byway that runs from Robbinsville North Carolina to Tellico Plains Tennessee. It...

I'm just back from an event called Miatas at the Gap . It was the sixteenth annual gathering, and I heard about it only on Monday!

While I was in New York my sweetie and I took a trip to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in hilly Ogdensburg, NJ, an hour's drive from ...

I've been spending time in New York-- in the Ramapo Mountains, about 30 miles from New York City. I never quite believed you could be i...

In Nashville they call them meat-and-three places-- little holes in the wall that serve up a variety of meats and vegetables. You get a cho...

With the exceptions of the historical shots and a couple of photos I took with a 3mp Fuji digital camera, the images in this blog were taken...