Vanessa and Papaw Big Adventure (New York and Washington DC) Vanessa, still asleep and it is 10:00am but I am going to let her sleep in. We arrived in Washington DC last night on Amtrack about 9:00pm and took the metro from the train station over to Alexandra VA. We took the (Blue Line), not the Red line but it could have just as easily been us in the big commuter crash in Washington. Life is timing. But when we got into the station in Alexandria it was about 10:30pm. We called the hotel and the desk clerk said the driver is off at 10:00. I ask how far it was to the hotel and he said just a couple of blocks. So we set off walking. But totally lost. No problem right? I have my handy dandy new GPS. So I pull it out and the battery is completely dead. It is dark, we are tired and totally lost. So we see a tow truck driver dropping off a car and I ask him where the hotel is. His answer was the same as the desk clerk, it is at the top of the hill. He also added that we should
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Sometimes things go as expected but if they do not then things get really interesting. My new friend and great photographer Mark Velasquez visited with me on his tour of America. This was set up months ago and I was so surprised and pleased that he decided to take me up on my offer to visit me in West Virginia. One of our stops was to my cabin in Canaan Valley. The shot above was one of our photo ops where we were taking pictures of the great views from Dolly Sods. The area is about 4000 feet above sea level and I had just a few days earlier purchased a portable GPS. The real purpose was to take it with me on my upcoming trip to New York and Washington DC. Since I was going to be walking around quite a bit I wanted a GPS to keep from getting lost. Well, Mark had climbed out on the rocks to get a shot of the mountains below. I had in mind that I wanted to try to capture a panorama shot so I also thew safety to the wend and made my way across treacherous rocks to the summat where Mark