Day Two Started With a Warning Light Day Two of our Washington, D.C. road trip didn’t begin with neon. It began quietly — 6:19am, no alarm, just that restless travel energy humming under my ribs. I wrote the previous day’s journal entry while my son slept. Pancakes were my strategy for waking him. It worked. … Read more
The Quiet Between Two Ranches There’s a stretch of road outside Brooksville where the world seems to thin out. No subdivisions.No shopping plazas.Just pastureland, fencing, and cattle that watch you with mild curiosity. Tucked between two ranches sits Twin Lakes Cemetery — a burial ground established in the late 1800s for the local African-American community … Read more
There are places that announce themselves the moment you arrive—grand gates, bold markers, legends whispered before you even step out of the car. Camp Springs Cemetery isn’t one of those places. It sits quietly in Henry County, Alabama, surrounded by open sky and Wiregrass soil, asking nothing more than that you slow down. Nearly 500 … Read more
There’s a hill near the Pasco–Hernando county line where the air feels older than it should. You reach it by way of a quiet dirt road. No dramatic entrance. No signage shouting for attention. Just live oaks stretching wide across the sky, Spanish moss drifting like soft gray curtains, and rows of headstones resting beneath … Read more
Hidden in the pine scrub of Pasco County, Florida, there is a single acre that quietly outlived an entire town. No storefronts remain.No schoolhouse.No post office. Just headstones. Loyce Cemetery — also known as Gillett-Loyce Cemetery — is the last physical remnant of a once-living pioneer settlement that flickered into existence in the late 1800s … Read more
There’s a tiny chapel tucked beside U.S. Highway 17 in coastal Georgia that most people would drive right past if they blinked. It’s small enough to miss. About 10 by 15 feet. Just enough room for a pulpit, a few chairs, and a handful of quiet prayers. The sign out front proudly calls it “The … Read more
Some stops give you sweeping trails, long hikes, and hours of wandering.Others give you a sign, some caution tape, and a quiet reminder that history doesn’t owe us access on demand. Our final stop of Alabama Road Trip #2 brought us to San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park—a park we added for one simple reason: … Read more
Some places don’t announce their importance. They don’t rise up as towering ruins or overwhelm you with monuments and markers. Instead, they sit quietly—fields, foundations, fragments—waiting for someone to pause long enough to listen. Fort Frederica National Monument is one of those places. At first glance, it looks like little more than a peaceful patch … Read more
170 Years, Nearly Gone Just off Interstate 75 in Sumter County, Florida—close enough to hear the hum of traffic—there’s a small fenced patch of land that most people never notice. And for a long time, almost no one did. Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery is one of the oldest burial grounds in the county, established in … Read more
A Wrong Turn with a Long Shadow We weren’t looking for a border. Dusty and I were trying to find a park—one she remembered visiting years ago with her mom, back when memories still came with voices attached to them. The GPS sent us to an RV resort that definitely wasn’t it. But instead of … Read more