Spring Break into the wild
Ready or not, virus or not. Spring Break is on the way. Here’s some fun ways to get outside and play around the region – and some good places to hang out and hide out and to avoid the indoors and crowds. Go For The Gold – The Golden Rainbow! What’s better than taking a […]
Go West – Grand Circle Travels
Like most of our Dave Trippin’ Spring Break excursions, this trip west to visit some of our country’s best national parks started on the couch. It was late last fall. We’d just lost one of our dear friends, Jeff Kovatch, and ready or not, Christmas was barreling down on us with mission impossible – trying […]
WV UNVEILS NEW 2020 TRAVEL GUIDE
CHARLESTON – Let’s go Trippin’ WV. On Wednesday, Gov. Jim Justice unveiled the new West Virginia Vacation Guide, a travel inspiration magazine dedicated solely to promoting Almost Heaven, West Virginia. “Nowhere else can you experience the beauty of the four seasons like you can in West Virginia,” said Gov. Justice in a release. “We absolutely […]
Nashville – Music City Murals
Although its trademarked moniker is “Music City, U.S.A.,” Nashville truly has become the Athens of the South when it comes to public visual art, and has the Parthenon to prove it. Aside from boasting the world’s only replica of the Greek temple complete with a 42-foot-tall gold-leafed Athena Parthenon statue and art museum, Nashville has […]
Cozy Up in a Cabin Near You
With plenty of winter left, there is a full on breakout of Cabin fever. Lucky for us there’s plenty of good deals to be had in the space before the busy spring and summer season. Go unplug, recharge and refresh. Here’s a look at a few good cabin deals around the region. Escape to some […]
Do Go Chasing Waterfalls
Here in these gray days of winter, the sight of one more day of late winter rain is enough to put you over the edge. That’s why in recent years, I’ve referred to those incessant rains as waterfall-factories and have purchased not one but two waterfall books to find some of those really hidden gems […]
Ballhooter Festival
SNOWSHOE, W.Va. – Tis the season for announcing spring and summer festivals. But if you really can’t wait to get that festival feeling, that’s OK, because Snowshoe Mountain is going to go ahead and start the party come March when there’s still plenty of snow in the mountains for Spring Break. Snowshoe just announced the […]
Winter in Pocahontas
Original Post Here: https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/dave-lavender-late-winter-trip-comes-with-its-own-west/article_c86625ae-6822-5c39-855d-89cc0a0f50d3.html While West Virginia may be small in area, we know how to stack, pack and pile things vertically. Like the cluttered Fred Flintstone closet and Chevy Chase’s Vacation piled-high station wagon, there are plenty of things to find in the West Virginia mountains – it just takes a minute and a […]
Stonewall Resort Wine Weekend
ROANOKE, W.Va. — Sometimes a good road-trip starts by looking at a map. In the weeks after Christmas, I was at a friend’s house admiring their new Basecamp Printing West Virginia state map that listed all of the State Parks and counting up the ones that we have been to and the ones we have somehow […]
Rocking Hikes
Many ‘rocking’ hikes to be found across region Oddly enough, I suppose, winter is one of my favorite times to hike. Trees barren of their leaves stretch and bend, posing for silhouettes at sundown through shining hues of purple, orange and mellow yellow. Add to that the fact that many state parks and forests are […]