Exactly the Same and Totally Different
Unlike my usual musings about food and travel, today I want to share a trip down memory lane…on skates. I played in the Virginia Tech Ice Hockey alumni game last …
Category: Virginia
Cabins / PATC Cabins / USA / Virginia
History, and a Nice Menu
I’ve long had an interest in the history of Shenandoah National Park, just a few hours west of us. This past weekend, we found a way to get up close …
Food and Drink / Maryland / USA / Virginia
Same Dynamic
I’ve wanted to visit the Chesapeake Bay’s Tangier Island ever since I read a travel article about it back in the 1990s. The island was first charted in 1608, and …
Cabins / Food and Drink / PATC Cabins / USA / Virginia
Hollow Full of Memories
This weekend we joined good friends for a quick getaway to the nearby Blue Ridge mountains and a stay at the Rosser Lamb House. The house was built in 1915 …
Food and Drink / New York / USA / Virginia
Holes on the Menu
As we planned our menu for an upcoming backpacking trip, Souzz reminded me that she “basically grew up on doughnuts”—which was a shocking revelation coming from somebody so fit. Apparently …
Cabins / PATC Cabins / USA / Virginia
Looking for Sasquatch
The east coast has some fun destinations, including Great North Mountain, which forms the border between Virginia and West Virginia for about 50 miles. Much of the mountain is above …
Hey Chris, can you pass me some sauce?
After Columbus landed in the Americas, he brought a lot of things back to the Continent. There was knowledge of the New World, sure, but let’s not forget wheat, potatoes, …
Cabins / Food and Drink / International / PATC Cabins / Switzerland / USA / Virginia
Blue Ridge Geschnetzeltes
Our friend Reto stopped through Virginia this weekend on his way back to his native Switzerland. As his home country boasts some amazing scenery, we were a bit surprised that …
Buddy, Can You Spare A Rib?
Virginia is bracing for record-breaking snowstorms tomorrow, but I’m still basking in the glow of a fun backpacking trip last weekend with my friend KB. We went to Brown’s Hollow, …
Cabins / Food and Drink / PATC Cabins / USA / Virginia
Another Birthday Thai
My birthday was last weekend, but Souzz was out of town so we postponed the celebration by a week. That means I’m technically seven days younger–and I feel so much …