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Crazy NC Town Names

OK – I’m from the big city of Climax, NC. As such, I have an affinity for goofy sounding town names.

At some point I’m going to write a full article about this, but just for kicks here are a few town names I dug up recently.

Bat Cave
Boger City
Boogertown
Coinjock
Farmers Store
Frog Level
Frog Pond
Frogsboro
Meat Camp
Pumpkin Center [...]

Getting my mojo back

For whatever reason, I feel like I’m finally getting my mojo back. I’ll admit it – I’ve been a freakin’ mess since we got off the river last year. I don’t know what it is about long trips, but after both the Appalachian Trail and Mississippi River I fell into a morass of depression that [...]

Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying

Mississippi River Journal

June 1, 2005

Been thinking about Dad today. He worked himself into the ground at the ripe old age of thirty-nine when I was three years old. I often wonder what he’d think about these kinds of trips I’ve been doing if he was still around. I wonder if I’d even be out [...]