When the alarm clock rang at 6:00am on Monday May 17, 2021, I nearly jumped off the television stand and into the camera case due to pure excitement. Even though we had three hours to wait before Jefferson’s home opened,…
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137: JEFFERSON’S OLD STOMPING GROUNDS
The weather was mostly overcast when our alarm rang at 6:00am on Sunday May 16, 2021. The more I thought about it during the night, I truly believed that Tom and Bob selected Wytheville as their place to spend the…
136: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREW JOHNSON
Tom’s alarm went off at 6:15am on Saturday May 15, 2021, which was a tad bit later than usual. But since we were only two blocks from our first site of the day, my photographer enjoyed the extra 15 minutes…
135: OUR FIRST NIGHT BECAME FRIGHT NIGHT IN GREENEVILLE
I had spent the entire night in the camera case, which was among the numerous belongings that Tom had packed for our two-week Presidential adventure. My photographer and I were once again hitting the history trail with Bob Moldenhauer on…
134: I SURVIVED THE WEEPING WOMAN
From behind the closed bathroom door where my photographer sat at 6:30am, I heard him yell out to his wife: “I have an idea of a place we can go to this morning if you’d like, but it’s about 50…
133: A SIMPLER TIME IN ANDY’S MAYBERRY
My companions got out of bed around 6:30am on Tuesday July 28, 2020 at the SpringHill Suites Hotel located near Charlotte Motor Speedway. Although we had several NASCAR-related sites to visit in the Charlotte area, that was the day our…
132: A-JAX, A SQUATCH, AND AN OLD DOPPELGӒNGER
For most of Sunday morning July 26, 2020, I had some alone time in the friendly confines of my camera case. After a full week with Tom and Vicki’s grandkids, I surely wasn’t complaining; even though it seemed to take…
131: SUN, SURF, SAND, AND SURGERY IN THE OBX
My photographer refused to set the alarm on Sunday July 19, 2020 because my cranky friend wanted to spend as much time as he could in the $500 room. When the cleaning service knocked on the door, he shouted and…
130: WE WALKED WITH WYTHE IN WILLIAMSBURG
When my companions awoke on Friday July 17, 2020, it was one of those rare days where Tom didn’t have much on our agenda. I knew that my photographer had planned on arriving at our rented beach house in Avon,…
129: MIDNIGHT RIDE OF THE PHANTOM OF FREEDOM
For the first time in a while, my companions got an extra hour of sleep as Tom had the alarm set for 7:00am on Thursday July 16, 2020. As soon as my photographer got himself ready, however, he decided to…