The weekend was kicked off with a few hours Friday evening spent in the Olde Towne Tobacconist lounge at 1781 Brewing. It had been a couple weeks since I visited and I was looking forward to seeing what was new in the humidor. After filling my mug with…
An early morning cigar is a rare treat. An early morning cigar, and a view like this is an even more special time. During a recent long weekend “escape” to a mountain farmhouse, I rose before the rest of the house, made a cup of coffee, and sat down to…
On Friday morning we backtracked from Stone Mountain State Park to the Blue Ridge Parkway and continued our journey south at milepost 229. It was foggy and cloudy and the …
To start a long weekend recently, I grabbed one of the CAO Flathead 660 sticks and the remains of a bottle of Henry McKenna 10 Year Bottled-in-Bond. It was a great, though bittersweet, pairing. The CAO stick is one I’ve been pairing with my w…
We got up early on day 3 and packed up to move on down the road, but not without some excitement. We had a sewage hookup at the site but …
We started our week long adventure on Labor Day. While everybody else was headed home to go back to work, we were headed west to the Virginia mountains. We entered …
Journey is not just the band that produced one of the greatest make-out albums ever.
In other news, the six night trip down the Blue Ridge …
On a recent evening, I was looking for a strong and flavorful beverage with which to sit and relax. Opening my liquor cabinet, the obvious choice was Pikesville Rye. This one of my favorite ryes, but one that I enjoy rather infrequently, in no small pa…
It’s been nineteen years. Memories fade. There’s a whole generation that didn’t experience the reality of that day. Some never learned history. Some have forgotten history. The events of September 11, 2001 brought horrors to our shores that the world s…
A tradition initiated by the folks over at The Catholic Gentleman, “Buy a Priest a Beer Day” seems a worthy event.On this festive day, faithful Catholics all over the world take their priests out for a beer and get to know them better. It’s a beautiful…
