by Doug Thompson | Aug 18, 2014 | Musings, News
As interest — mostly in opposition — builds on the proposed 42-inch natural gas pipeline that would transmit the fuel from a fracking operation in West Virginia to a distribution center in Chatham and travel and strangely circuitious route through Giles,...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 13, 2011 | Featured, FUBAR, Musings
You know a community is in trouble when even the police department and jail is closed and boarded up. War, West Virginia, calls itself the southernmost city in the state but like so many communities where coal was once king, War has seen better days. Discovered War by...
by Doug Thompson | May 11, 2010 | Featured, News
Did you know Virginia Rte. 8 comes to a dead end when it intersects with U.S. 11 in Christiansburg? Or that U.S. 221 ends its 734 mile journey in Lynchburg? As an incurable road explorer in either a Wrangler or on a Harley, I like to see where highways lead....
by Doug Thompson | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, News
Give me a gorgeous Spring day, a full gas tank on my Harley Super-Glide and an open road and I just go where the whim takes me. After breakfast with friends at the North Star restaurant south of Buchanan, I headed up U.S. 11 then up Virginia 43 to the Blue Ridge...
