May 23
Click here and join me on my latest adventure to the West Blocton Car Show!
The West Blocton Car Show made for a great family friendly adventure.
This car show while small due to weather had all you could ask for in a car show! Rat Rods, Classics and some super old stuff you don’t normally see – a Packard!
This is the third West Blocton Car show and is located in central Alabama not far from Birmingham, Alabama.
May 16
In today adventure I find myself at the Pepper Place Farmers Market in Birmingham, Alabama.
While I’ve made a short film of the Pepper Place Farmers Market before, this time the dogs are the stars!
The Pepper Place Farmers Market is open January thru December rain or shine.
While The Pepper Place Farmers Market in Birmingham, Alabama’s website notes to leave your pets at home – apparently no one has read that!
May 06
Click here to see my latest short film where I spend time in the pits of a major Indycar Race!
In this micro adventure I have all track access to the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama!
I had all track access including the pits. It was incredible to be at the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama!
Ever wonder what the pit life is about at an Indycar Race? I did, so I found out!
May 03
In this micro adventure I have all track access to the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama!
I had all track access including the pits. It was incredible to be at the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama!
Apr 27
Click here for my latest Short Film – Timeless Cars of Tannehill!
It’s car show season again in the south. So today I explore the Tannehill Memorial Car show at Tannehill State Park in McCalla, Alabama.
This Tannehill car show is of the classic car variety and was well attended. Chevy’s, Plymouth’s, Ford’s, Corvette’s and so much more!
Today’s micro-adventure was on an incredibly beautiful day.
I love these events as a micro adventure for families as they are family friendly and typically free. What more could you ask for!
So I hope this will motivate and inspire you to get outside and take your own micro adventure this weekend.
So I hope you enjoy the Timeless Cars of Tannehill memorial car show!
Music Credits:
Epidemic Sound
Break Your Chain
Layn
Apr 19
Click here and enjoy an incredible Supercar Car Show!
Today we’re in the Magic City of Birmingham, Alabama to attend the Magic City Octane car show!
The Exotic Supercars were incredible, Mclaren, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Ferraris and so much more!
But not only were there high end supercars there was everything in between!
Magic City Octane meets monthly and is a must do show when in the Birmingham, Alabama area during car show season.
Apr 12
Urban Exploration is what today’s adventure is all about. Inspired by true life events…
Today we take a Sunday Ride to explore the historic old southern city of Eutaw, Alabama. We’ll step back in time to old town squares and old antebellum home in all states of repair to fully restored.
Old antebellum homes and so much more.
Eutaw. Alabama is a great example of what the old south was once like.
Urban Exploration, Urban Exploration, Urban Exploration.
Old South, Old South, Old South!
Mar 29
Today were exploring the Back Alleys of another top 10 most dangerous city in Alabama known as Fairfield.
Fairfield resides just outside of Birmingham, Alabama.
It’s ranked the #2 most dangerous city according to https://www.southwestjournal.com/us/alabama/most-dangerous-cities-in-alabama/
I felt very safe in Fairfield and met some good people!
So I hope you enjoy my latest adventure as I explore the Back Alleys of Another Top 10 Most Dangerous City in Alabama – Fairfield.
Mar 08
Inner City Sacred – In Search of 1872 Cathedral Church of the Advent
According the the Church’s website:
In 1872, the new city of Birmingham grew quickly after the Elyton Land Company established a new industrial center in what was formerly undeveloped land. Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer sent Philip Fitts to serve area congregations in the new city. With the 16 Episcopalians he found in Birmingham, Fitts began meeting at the corner lot sold to this young congregation for $5.00. By 1893, the church’s worship space, the Nave, was completed and welcomed worshippers. The first Lenten Preaching Series began in 1908, the Advent Episcopal School opened in 1950, and the Advent became the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama in 1982. Various renovations and building projects added spaces and expanded the school through the years, along with our Cranmer House and Advent House satellite locations. In 2022, Craig Smalley was called as Dean and Rector and began to lead our downtown Birmingham church family.
Feb 29
Click here and join me as I explore The American Village and Festival of Tulips!
Today I’ll be exploring The American Village and Tulip Festival in Montevallo, Alabama.
The American Village and Tulip Festival in Montevallo and Tulip Festival is held once a year.
Here is the history of The Village according to https://www.americanvillage.org/history/
When the American Village opened the Board of Trustees publicly cited “The American Village is possible only because of the extraordinary vision, leadership, and perseverance of Tom Walker.” A few years later it awarded him its highest honor for his visionary leadership and persistence in founding of the American Village. He conceived of the idea of a place to engage young people in the stories of liberty – as a foundation for their becoming good citizens and leaders. In 1993 he began publicly speaking and advocating for the creation of such a place. He worked with citizens and officials. In 1995 the Citizenship Trust was officially chartered by legislative act sponsored by the late Rep. Al Knight and then Sen. Frank C. Ellis, Jr. as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution, and in 1998, then State Representative Johnny Curry authored the first public funding support, and on November 30, 1999, the American Village campus opened.
Beginning in 1994 American Village Founder and President Emeritus Tom Walker collaborated with Mike Hamrick, an extraordinarily gifted architect of Eufaula, Alabama. Their collaboration focused on shaping and creating a vision of both the campus as a whole and of its individual components. Walker and Hamrick, and more recently new American Village President and CEO Alan B. Miller, with support of the Board of Trustees, and other stakeholders, have sought to create a campus that is emblematic of America’s heritage of liberty and self-government. This village “set upon a hill” is emerging more and more as a nationally-distinctive campus.
Today the American Village is sustained by broad support: by citizens and leaders in all walks of life who believe that it is important to teach youth the vital lessons of liberty, to remember the price of liberty, and to prepare new generations of Americans for their roles as stewards of our Constitution and other charters of freedom. We invite Americans to join in this work to answer Benjamin Franklin’s challenge: “…it’s a Republic, if you can keep it.”