Starting from this past Thursday, October 11, 2011 until Sunday is the Annual National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This year it celebrates its 40th anniversary. This arts and crafts festival is not like any I have ever been to. While it has the art exhibits and craftsmen exhibit one would expect...
Regardless of your opinion on these two hikers, and their chosen hiking destination, this is good news. Two Americans captured in Iran, and denied numerous basic human rights have been released from Iran after two years in prison. They are expected to return to the US today. These two male hikers, and...
Camping on the beach is one of those ideal dreams I always thought would be cool to experience. It brings me back to a time when there were beach parties and surfers were able to roam the shorelines without concern. Now, there are very few places in the United States where spending a...
Delta, Alabama Cheaha State Park is primarily a campground and cabin type of state park. It is a great location, however, for a lot of outdoor activites in the surrounding Talladega National Forest. Located here, however, is Alabama’s highest natural point, Cheaha. Unlike other states’ highest points, no hiking trail summits the mountain....
Heflin, Alabama Eighteen Hole Course LakePoint Disc Golf Course is located on, what appears, to be a former watershed area turned park. The course features some very interesting holes, including narrow drives along a dam, tight wooded shots up and down hills, and some long wide open shots across grassy fields. Each hole...