Upcoming Adventures - 2018

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I still have a good many articles to write on here about trips I've already done and I also have several more trips planned.

Later this year I'll be heading to more local parts of West Virginia as well as traveling the Midwestern and Southern parts of the country.

Caving was a new experience for me on the last trip to the Sinks of Gandy and I'm already working on plans to explore two or three local cave systems with a couple being in Tucker County and another being in Randolph County the first of which will take place later this week.

After doing the Durbin Rocket I now have plans of either later this year or next spring doing both Elkins and Cass scenic train rides as well. I took a ton of photos during all my adventures and if you'd like to see them feel free to check out our Facebook page by following the link in the menu to the left.

The trip I'm most excited about is the one coming up that will see me in Dodge City KS, Galveston TX, New Orleans LA, Biloxi MS, Mobile AL, Pensacola FL, St Augustine FL, and Savannah GA. This will be the longest trip I've done so far. In anticipation of the trip, I've already purchased new camera gear and plan to carry along both my Nikon D5200 and Canon SX530 HS. During this trip, I'll hopefully be doing a fan boat ride through the bayou, a glider boat ride over Savannah, plantation tours, fort tours, battleship tours, and several other crazy and interesting things along the way.

On top of the longer trips I'm working on squeezing in day trips to several local tourist attractions and plan to return to the Jackson's Mill Jubilee, Pricketts Fort, Blennerhassett Island, Falling Water, Point Pleasant, Dolly Sods, Smoke Hole Caverns, Seneca Caverns, and more.

For several years I lived a lifestyle of staying home and now I'm happily switching to one where I come and go when I want and see what I want along the way. Stay tuned to see what else I manage to get into in the coming months and year.

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