A golden oldie

(APALACHICOLA, Fla.) — I’m sitting on a large porch, near a wide street, in a small, rainy Florida town. I am leaving today, but I seriously considered moving here. When I arrived a few days ago, it felt like the town opened up its arms to me, and almost immediately I met tons of cool [...]

Pretty far east

(HATTERAS, N.C.) — It’s hardly raining in this tiny, shut up town, but the wind is so intense out there that it feels as though I’m in the midst of some great downpour. The trailer is being pitched from side to side, enough that I almost feel like I’m sitting on a boat instead of [...]

They call it Charm City? You don’t say.

(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — My friend, Erik, and I have a thing for quirky towns and cities that others might overlook. The places we like are the ones that, if they were kids in middle school, would get beat up by bigger, glitzier locales like New York, Toronto and London. I’m talking about El Paso, Texas [...]