We had made it to the seventh day of the trip and Tom’s alarm rang at 4:30am on Thursday May 20, 2021. My photographer had a grand scheme to ride into Washington D.C. with Mongo and capture sunrise images at…
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140: BOOTH’S TRAIL TOOK US FROM DIRT TO MUDD
As usual, my photographer’s alarm rang at precisely 6:00am. It was Wednesday May 19, 2021 and from my perch alongside the TV in our Dahlgren, Virginia hotel room, I watched as he and Mongo got ready for the day. While…
139: YOU SAY TYLER; I SAY TAYLOE
My photographer’s alarm rang at 6:00am on Tuesday May 18, 2021 and I was anxious to hit the road for two reasons: First, I knew I was headed for a tour of John Tyler’s ‘Sherwood Forest’; and this time the…
138: MONTICELLO – AN AMERICAN CHATEAU
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,…
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…