I visited a lot of really awesome places when I was on the island of Oahu, HI for my birthday back in 2009. The morning of my actual birthday started at Byodo-In Temple where I enjoyed a quite morning of contemplation and reflection. It paid to be an early bird that day because I had […]

The trail was like a snowy slip-n-slide, making proper balance next to impossible during some parts of the hike. We were utterly surprised upon arriving at the trail head to see that the ground was still blanketed with snow—any snow around our house has long since melted. It escaped our minds that Elk Knob was […]

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody  ~James Thurber~ Most people tend to think about love in a romantic sense. They associate it with how you get butterflies in your stomach when you’re with that special someone, or how they frequently fill you with warm and fuzzies. There’s an aspect of love, though, that […]

It’s not often that Boone has the honor of hosting a big name act passing through North Carolina. What’s even more rare than attracting popular musicians is an opportunity to see them perform in a more intimate setting with far fewer people than they are used to playing for. Last week, Langhorne Slim found his […]