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The Best of 2017
And just like that - in a flash - another year has come and gone. It's absolutely true - the older you get, the faster that life seems to...
Robert Stephens
Dec 11, 20177 min read
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Reboot
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." ~ Satchel Paige It's always been about the "long game" in regards to my...
Robert Stephens
Jul 16, 201711 min read
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March Madness (Part Deux)
The "Spring-in-Charleston-by-way-of-Winter-in-Saluda" trip was truly a successful, satisfying escape (see Part 1 for more) - with winter...
Robert Stephens
Apr 2, 201711 min read
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March Madness (Part 1)
Just so you know, the original title of this travel blog was intended to be "Spring Forward," in reference to the accelerated pace of...
Robert Stephens
Mar 16, 20178 min read
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Keepin' It Local
So I'm sitting here at my desktop tonight (which in reality is a Toshiba laptop with a broken screen, connected to an ancient White...
Robert Stephens
Feb 9, 20175 min read
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Approaching Winter
For the better part of the last few months, I was in a funk and I needed to find a way to break out of it. Heck, if it took gettin' down...
Robert Stephens
Jan 12, 20177 min read
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From The Ashes
As I was wrapping up the writing on my blog "Heading For The Light" on November 28, news reports were slowly filtering in from the other...
Robert Stephens
Dec 18, 20168 min read
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Counting 'em Down
When I was a kid, I had my own little Saturday morning ritual. Starting around 1980, not long after my father passed, I'd make a bee line...
Robert Stephens
Dec 6, 20168 min read
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Heading For The Light
In recent weeks, the steady flow of images from Yours Truly began slowly diminishing to a near halt. And it was no fault of my sometimes...
Robert Stephens
Nov 25, 20168 min read
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Better Late Than.....
"When I last left off" seems to be a recurring theme in my travel blogs lately. I'd sit down and begin writing a new blog, only to be...
Robert Stephens
Nov 5, 20168 min read
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Stormy Weather
When I last left off, your faithful reporter was firmly "in my element," living life "to the max," and "going epic." (How's that for...
Robert Stephens
Aug 7, 20168 min read
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Gone Epic
There's a guy I vaguely know (whose trail name is "Badger") who is a prominent part of the East Tennessee/Western North Carolina...
Robert Stephens
May 15, 20168 min read
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To The Max
I had great hopes for Sunday morning. The rain that had soothed me to sleep the night before (and believe me, there's nothing more...
Robert Stephens
May 4, 20167 min read
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In My Element
My original intent with this particular blog was to write at length about my two week foray into the state of Virginia. Now don't get me...
Robert Stephens
Apr 24, 20168 min read
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A Spot Of Winter
Winter is always the toughest season for photography - at least for myself, anyway. If you've kept pace with my blogs, you already know...
Robert Stephens
Feb 15, 20168 min read
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Anatomy Of An Image
I wish I could sit here and tell you that the majority of my work is the product of well-thought-out planning, superior knowledge and...
Robert Stephens
Jan 28, 20167 min read
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Chasing Winter
For the better part of the latter months of 2015 and even into the new year, it seemed as though the expected cold weather in the Smokies...
Robert Stephens
Jan 18, 20168 min read
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The Busy Season
I live in an area with three really great seasons and one really not-so-great season - that is, of course, unless driving on icy roads...
Robert Stephens
Nov 1, 20158 min read
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Where He Guides
Last Wednesday was, to put it mildly, a very slow day at work. And since I'm the highest paid driver in the P&Z Carolina franchise, I was...
Robert Stephens
Apr 1, 20155 min read
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When Opportunity Knocks
I've likely said this in one form or another in my previous travel blogs on Facebook, and maybe even in one of my two self-published...
Robert Stephens
Feb 15, 20155 min read
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