Roads Less Traveled

Discovering adventure around every bend

Roads Less Traveled: Preacher’s Rock

It's a wonderful time of year for hiking at the higher elevations. The late summer air is often quite cool and refreshing, even in...

Roads Less Traveled: Mt. Mitchell, NC

This week we're throwing it back to a post from August 1, 2015. I had recently made my first visit to the highest point...

Roads Less Traveled: Memories like Meteors

The annual Perseid meteor shower occurred this week. Unfortunately, a bright full moon washed out any good photography opportunities around this usually grand show....

Roads Less Traveled: Purple

This past week I made a trip to somewhere I hadn't visited in years. The trip came at the suggestion of a photographer friend...

Roads Less Traveled: Miles to go before I sleep

It's hot outside and this past week we celebrated Christmas in July. The heat and unofficial holiday both have me wishing for cooler weather....

Roads Less Traveled: Underrated

In my ramblings along the famed Blue Ridge Parkway, where I do most of my photography, I rarely find a spot that isn't covered...

Roads Less Traveled: Colder weather

It's about this time of year, mid-July when the air temperature reaching well into the 90s on a daily basis, that I start thinking...

Roads Less Traveled: Waterfallin’

These wet July days make for interesting hiking weather. The gorgeous views are often obscured by clouds, or even straight up dangerous due to...

Roads Less Traveled: Nothing

I have long been a fan of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The snarky Calvin and lovable tiger are even hanging on my...

Roads Less Traveled: A Night with the Northern Lights

It was 7 years ago this week that the aurora borealis last visited Georgia. I figured there was no better time to go back...

Roads Less Traveled: Gone coastal

Every summer tens of thousands of Southern Appalachian folk trade in the mountains for the beach for summer vacation. Me included. That's what I did this...

Roads Less Traveled: Million Dollar View

I have been fortunate to travel all over the southern Appalachian mountains. While I have never traveled more than a few states, or even...