After a break of five years, Terris Christian, John Bauer, Jim Stallings, and I once again spent a week together. Terris, John, and Jim are computer professionals I met decades ago at the start of the personal computer era, circa 1984, when I bought my first computer. We met monthly at someone’s house (there were other geek friends) and I was a computer nerd wannabe. I tried but never made the transition from family physician to computer professional and have…
Why walk through an almost mile-long, dark, dank, slippery, cold tunnel? Because it is there! In 2020, the Blue Ridge Tunnel, AKA Claudius Crozet Tunnel, is a historic engineering landmark now open to the public. It was built in the 1850s with black powder and pickaxes under the Blue Ridge Mountains (Rockfish Gap) Nelson County to Albemarle County. The 2.2-mile trail is now a wide, crushed limestone surface connecting the East Trailhead in Afton to the West Trailhead near Waynesboro….
We just returned from a lovely stroll through the Cotswolds, English countryside designated as “an area of outstanding natural beauty”. With rolling hills, “wolds”, it is the second largest protected landscape in England (in case you are wondering, the Lake District is the largest). Also, in case you were wondering, a “cot” is a sheep enclosure. So the Cotswolds are a land of “sheep enclosures on rolling hillsides”. Inhabited since the bronze age, the area made its fortune and reputation…