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Naebody in Particular
You won't find them on a shortbread tin, but our ancestors live on so long as we keep telling their stories. Scots, Yanks, Canucks and the Auld Enemy. Newest posts are the ancestors, but scroll for the living.
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photos: West Virginia Route 55
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route 55 cuts through the Monongahela National Forest, taking people from Front Royal, Virginia in the east through to central West Virginia, near where my conference is being held.the landscapes along the route are exotic — much more like rural Australia and much less like what i’d have expected being only a couple hundred miles from D.C..
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travel: stonewall, west virginia
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i’m off for a couple of days — work is having an internal marketing conference out in west virginia for a couple of days, which means i won’t be back until Thursday.the conference is actually at resort that is part of a west virginia state park, and isn’t too too far from Monongahela National Forest.
i’ve looked over the conference materials and there is less than three hours built into the schedule for us to actually be out in nature — which is ironic considering who i work for — but i’m taking the “good” camera for the pretty stuff on the drive out and back.
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travel: stonewall resort, west virginia
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it’s like the ultimate in liberal dilemma — do you vote for the person who clearly most benefits you, or the person who will most benefit the people who need the most benefit?
fortunately for me, i don’t actually have to make a decision between the two evils — because D.C. forgot to send me the absentee ballot i requested, and West Virginia is a long, long way away from the ballot boxes.
it’s too bad, because this is my one chance to vote this year — with 75% of D.C. voters registered as Democtats, the Repubs aren’t even expected to field a Mayoral candidate for the general.