by Doug Thompson | Aug 24, 2010 | Featured, Musings
Fries bills itself as the town at the start of the New River Trail but the Commonwealth of Virginia’s web site for Virginia State Parks considers 5.5 mile stretch that runs from Fries a “branch” of the main trail that it says runs 51.5 miles from...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 14, 2010 | Featured, Musings
A sunset over the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I took a ride into the area recently to clear my head and ponder recent events. As regular readers of this web site know, I have been dealing with issues revolving around the sunset of life — not my own but of a...
by Doug Thompson | Jul 5, 2010 | Featured, Musings
Like too many towns in Virginia’s economically-ravaged Southside, Danville’s downtown is largely a ghost town, dominated by empty buildings and remnants of past glories. On a recent motorcycle ride to North Carolina, I rode through Danville and stopped to...
