Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a different kind of spring here in and around the great capital city of the United States. Yes, the Japanese cherry trees blossomed this year by the Jefferson Memorial and around the Tidal Basin, along with the redbuds, dogwoods and mountain…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHEROKEE ROCK VILLAGE, Ala. – If the conservative Republicans on Fox News, talk radio and social media are just going to go on and on calling liberal Democrats “libs” and talk endlessly about “sticking it to the libs” while Donald Trump and Elon Musk go…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHEROKEE ROCK VILLAGE, Ala. – Always on the lookout for cool, historic and scenic places to camp these days, on a recent trip scouting new places in Alabama I ran across this gem in Cherokee County not far from Gadsden and Noccalula Falls. Cherokee Rock…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – PELL CITY, Ala. – We’re going through Blackberry Winter here this week and it’s not a bad thing, especially if you are camping out. Last week the afternoon high temperature reached the upper 80s, with the low at night only dropping to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – You know me. It’s not my way to just blow smoke, make shit up and sensationalize the facts with pretension to get attention and traffic. There’s clearly no money in that anyway, in contradiction to what everyone thought about the internet in…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SELMA, Ala. – As fate would have it, no real plan of my own, I’m encamped in an undisclosed location somewhere off the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. On Sunday, the reenactment of that historic march will kick off once again, as it does…
There for the Birth of Southern Rock, he took the Muscle Shoals swampy sound to London and blended that with the Rasta island beat, creating a new sound that transformed Reggae for mainstream audiences in Europe and America. – A Draft Book Proposal in Progress By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – (Jan.…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man,” Bob Dylan once sang in another anxious time. He found the answer, “blowin’ in the wind.” How many rivers must the same man cross, before…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – DEVIL’S DEN, Ark. – When the news came through loud and clear and all over the New York Times front page Wednesday morning that a majority of the American people are willing to roll the dice on another crazy term for a criminal and proven…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – You never know what you’re going to find until you find it. Mark Twain once said “travel is fatal to prejudice.” But prejudice is not my problem. The Bible says the love of money is the root of evil, but that’s not my problem…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Y’all are not going to believe this. As fate would have it, and irony of ironies considering my Alabama history, we will be visiting a town this week that gained national tabloid fame in November, 2016, as “the most racist town in America.” I kid you not. I…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CHARLESTON, W.V. – After we left the campsite Monday morning by that creek in Maryland where I had the amazing spiritual experience in nature, what could be the last time in that enchanted forest by Camp David, Ramsey the Roadtrek Media Camper Van headed south and west. Secret Vistas:…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – This column has been several days in the planning, but I needed to wait until after the ABC presidential debate to finalize it. That’s done, and what a great performance by Vice President Kamala Harris and a relief for all of us in this…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – So I had just made it back up to the mountain top from D.C. and setup in a regular campsite on Tuesday at 1,700 feet above sea level when the iPhone went off with a text message from a strange, international number. At first…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. – Now hold your horses. Hang on to your hat. Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat. Hit pause for a minute. This summer has been a whirlwind of activity since we left the D.C. Metro Area in June, heading for the hills and sensing the summer heat and trouble on…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — You don’t have to travel to some high mountain pass to find insight in this mixed up world. But maybe it helps. It seemed to help Moses, George Mallory and Elisha Mitchell, as I’ve written in the past. Climbing Mountains For Inspiration: What’s…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So in between everything else that’s going on in the news and my life at this time, which has been pretty busy and productive of late, I had a chance on Thursday to get out on the road for a day trip to Shenandoah National…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you find yourself in the Washington region and happen to be traveling down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to see all the monuments and museums in the nation’s capital city, you might notice an exit sign for Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens. If you have the…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — It’s about time to hit the MoJo Road one more time in this amazing life journey chasing bliss and enlightenment in nature near the heart of political power in America. MoJo in this case refers to Mobile Journalism, as well as the Luck and…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — Many years ago in a land far away, I proposed a way to test E.O. Wilson’s Biophilia hypothesis by adding a few questions to annual surveys of visitors in the most visited national park in the United States, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park…
Camping, Hiking and Boating at Kymulga Grist Mill and Covered Bridge Park
