Author: Jere Matlock
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Bucket List Item – Big Bend
When I was very young (4?) my dad and I traveled a lot by car across Texas. He had leased a bunch of scales; the kind where you put in a nickel and get your weight and fortune told.
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Pecos River
Pecos River, 2017-02-03 To quote Judge Roy Bean: “West of Dodge there is no law, west of the Pecos there is no God.”
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Going Mobile: It takes the right tools
We could not do the programming and web design work we need to do to support our highly-mobile alternative lifestyle without some computer tools we use every day; I thought I would share them here. DropBox and Evernote are both very handy things to be using on a daily basis. If you don’t have an Evernote…
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On Top of Mt. Mitchell
This is Marie on top of Mt. Mitchell, June 10, 2016. It’s accessible by car or RV, so we drove up there. Then on the way down, we experienced having our brakes smoke. People were honking at us to let us know, so we pulled over and let them cool off while we napped. And…
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Zen Tubing in Asheville, NC
“Find Your Inner Tube” is the marketing tagline of Zen Tubing. Clever and true!
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Confederate Heroes
The sculpture at Stone Mountain, Georgia, depicts three heroes of the Confederacy: Robert E. Lee, of course, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis, the CSA’s first and only president. Every Southerner knows who these people are, and every Northerner ought to know who they are — they were greatly respected by their peers in the Union,…
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Melty Hot in Georgia
This yellow stripe near the diesel pump in Juliette, Georgia, used to be straight. It has faded in the sunlight over time, and became bent as the asphalt under it melted and moved over from the heat and pressure of the tires of the trucks filling up here. THIS is how hot it is in…
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Ebeneezer Methodist Church, Smarr, Georgia
This beautiful little church in Smarr, Georgia, sits in front of the L&D RV Park on a couple of acres of lovely mowed grass. I asked the owner of the RV Park if she attended services there—she said “No. They’re Methodists. I drive 18 miles to my own church.” To which I could have replied, “I…