Twelve Mile Circle

1 min read 2021-11-20 22:08:41

Little Loudoun Loop

I traveled an hour west of Washington, DC for a Loudoun Wine Adventure back in 2012. In the time since then, beverage tourism has only increased in

1 min read 2021-10-20 05:15:27

With niceties out of the way including a few hours at Niagara Falls, I could focus on the primary purpose. Three more New York counties needed my

1 min read 2021-10-18 04:04:59

I started Twelve Mile Circle back in 2007. Sometimes I wish I could return to those earliest pages and rewrite them though. They didn’t have nearly

1 min read 2021-10-16 05:35:22

I had a three-day weekend coming up and four unvisited counties in western New York staring me in the face. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Of

1 min read 2021-08-11 05:03:33

We spent our final overnight in Marietta, Ohio, arriving late in the afternoon after a grueling drive. So we didn’t have a ton of time to explore

1 min read 2021-08-08 04:17:38

All good things must come to an end. So, after spending a week in Louisville, we needed to begin the long journey back home. As before, this unfolded

1 min read 2021-08-04 05:04:05

We continued to follow the basic path of the Ohio River, this time heading west from Louisville. At the far end we hit our most westerly destination,

1 min read 2021-08-02 04:22:17

After a warmup loop the day before, we set our sites on something more ambitious. This took us on a course extending northeast of Louisville to the

1 min read 2021-07-31 03:48:17

We used Louisville, Kentucky as our home base for the week and we took several day trips into the countryside. Because the drive to Louisville took a

1 min read 2021-07-28 05:09:04

Many people suggested the Big Four Bridge when I asked for Louisville suggestions. This spans a half-mile across the Ohio River, connecting the city

1 min read 2021-07-24 06:51:59

Let’s queue-up the broken record. I like visiting breweries and invariably I include an article focused on the topic every time I travel. So I’ll

1 min read 2021-07-21 06:03:49

We finally arrived in Louisville after a couple days of driving and wandering. I’ll start by saying that it’s impossible to cover an entire city

1 min read 2021-07-19 04:08:42

I created a jagged route as we passed between Portsmouth, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky, before reaching the Interstate and continuing onward to

1 min read 2021-07-16 05:23:12

We began our journey with an easy drive along Interstate highways. I worried a bit about I-81 and its abundant truck traffic on the Friday before a

1 min read 2021-07-14 05:54:27

The COVID pandemic began to wane as summer approached. Sure, we’d taken pseudo-vacations since its arrival. We went to a couple of lakes and the