The road is a mountain you climb to a thousand journeys…adventure is calling
Nashville Spotlight: Centennial Park. From our sister site – Adele Belle – check out a Backyard Trekker segment on Nashville’s Centennial Park #NashvilletoAsheville #UrbanWild More adventures coming your way on our virtual tour – stay tuned!
Read More Nashville Spotlight: Centennial ParkJourneying deeper into our Nashville to Asheville to virtual road trip into today’s Vagabond Warrior segment we are going to delve into the roots of Nashville’s music scene. Nashville is situated in a geographic confluence of east meets west, north meets south – it is a crossroads of culture – from the Native American cultures […]
Read More Nashville Music Trails: Part IForty-Eight Hours in Downtown Nashville Nashville is a vibrant town with a southern laid back swing, contrasted by the uptempo city beat that never stops moving. As the state capital of Tennessee, a top-ten tourist destination and center of a diverse merging of industry from auto (Nissan is headquartered in Nashville), printing/publishing (Ingram…), music, restaurant […]
Read More 48 Hours in Downtown NashvilleWhen I first left my hometown of Raleigh NC for Nashville TN I was a naive dreamer who was chasing down stardust in the neon signs of Broadway living and hoping that my song would be the lyrics deep enough to rise above the sonic boom of countless other talented musicians and dreamers. It was […]
Read More Nashville Musings: One night in a CAFENashville is a crossroads of culture and life. Located on a bend in the Cumberland River amid the rolling hills of Tennessee’s mid-country, the city was founded in 1779 as a Fort Nashborough. The town developed into an important trading post and economic center, becoming the state capital in 1843, after long being the state’s […]
Read More Destination NashvilleOver the next month Vagabond Warrior is going an a virtual journey with a series of travel features focused on Nashville to Asheville. This series will be tied into other feature articles on my partner site ‘Adele Belle‘ as we ramble down I-40 and beyond from Nashville and Tennessee time, east to the Blue Ridge […]
Read More Nashville to Asheville Travel Adventure SeriesIt has been a week since I left Nashville and it still haunts my dreams with a sweet magnolia scent. I am finally taking time to write down my travel itinerary after the helter-skelter pace of last weekend’s travel and workload with our storage unit, before zooming back to Raleigh for a full week of […]
Read More Mountains to Cross: Leaning on God, Letting Go – Traveler’s SoulLost in the woods. I am lost in the narrow space between the forests as the highway winds crisscrossing through Appalachia in the ethereal glow of the Blue Ridge. My heart races in a beat of praise in awe of the peace and beauty of the mountains surrounding me as I travel the bottleneck of […]
Read More Vagabond TreK: Crossing Carolina into Tennessee TimeIn the breakneck pace of the day you need to carve out space between time to get lost in the urban wild. Raleigh has become a sprawling mass of traffic jams, quick start building projects, techno energy drain. I am born and raised in Raleigh. I made my debut here, my family has deep ties […]
Read More Urban Wild – Lake Johnson Raleigh NCThe earth has tilted its axis shifting winter into spring. As I was folding clothes today at my job I dreamed of faraway places. I shifted through magazines on my lunch break, one clothing catalog showing perfect pictures of St. Barths, enticing me towards a deserted island with just my journal, ink, camera and island […]
Read More It is never too late to CHANGE COURSE