Woke up early to hike Pinnacle Mountain, which is just outside of town.  They could easily call it “pile of rocks” mountain, because once you’re up above treeline — which […]

Arrived in Little Rock yesterday evening.  Saw very little of the city, because my B&B is on the same side of town as the airport.  It’s a lovely neighborhood — […]

Walked a mile and a half downtown for breakfast — our B&B is lovely in many ways, but breakfast is not its specialty.  The cherry-rosemary scone at Trattoria Centrale, on […]









Yes, going from Montgomery to Selma is backwards — the march in 1965 went in the other direction — but this made more sense given what we wanted to see […]

Woke up to a day much warmer and sunnier than yesterday.  Drove about half an hour south to Oak Mountain Park, Alabama’s biggest state park.  It’s quite a place; in […]

Hiking day. I say, everywhere you go, try to hike at least once. [Prescott]