by Stephen Goodyear | May 2, 2023 | travel
It is an easy five-hour drive from the oceans of SE South Carolina to the mountains of SW North Carolina – Asheville. We do it often, especially in the heat of summer. This time it was glamping re-visited. Last time we were in a dome. This time we were in a tiny...
by Stephen Goodyear | May 1, 2023 | travel
I was sitting on the bank of a river in Botswana with Eli, enjoying a Montecristo #2 and watching for hippos and the conversation turns to….. The Grey in Savannah Georgia. Really? Turns out Eli’s home base is Atlanta and even Atlantans hundreds of miles away know of...
by Stephen Goodyear | Apr 1, 2023 | travel
Our first trip to Austin was in the early 1990’s and the locals were telling us you should have been here in the 80”s. We started going to Austin regularly in 1996 and moved there in 2000. By then the semiconductor industry had been heavily subsidized to locate there...
by Stephen Goodyear | Mar 10, 2023 | travel
Arrive in Naples early Thursday night for a long weekend and you immediately go to the Celebration Park Food Court. The Maine Shack lobster rolls are the best this side of Kennebunkport. The bar is hopping – March Madness is in full swing – and there is a great...
by Stephen Goodyear | Dec 1, 2022 | travel
We all have them. Those grand trips we may never get to take for one reason or another. Jane and I did the luxury safari this year. We have friends who like to organize things and they set up their own and loved it. We have an appreciation for Backroads trips so we...