Jerry and Jonathan

Bigging up Smallville – Goreville IL to Chester IL

Bigging up Smallville – Goreville IL to Chester IL

Could you live in rural America? It’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves on several occasions over the last few weeks. Remote, few facilities, little in the form of entertainment, it seems there are few positives to recommend it. But spend more time with the people who live in ‘Smallville’ and you begin to get…

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Lest we Forget – Sebree KY to Marion KY

Lest we Forget – Sebree KY to Marion KY

It’s Memorial Day in America, a public holiday, so the roads are quiet. The Stars and Stripes are everywhere as the country remembers its war dead. Sitting in a cafe in Sebree this morning over breakfast I was reading the Evansville Courier which had an article about a local lad killed in Vietnam in 1968…

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Bleak Expectations…. Catawba VA to Fort Chiswell VA

Bleak Expectations…. Catawba VA to Fort Chiswell VA

By Terry Last night’s life saver turned up trumps again this morning … fresh coffee and egg ‘biscuits’ (‘rolls’ to us Brits) made to order. Fab. And they had those rare and elusive items: a butane canister and some non-meat noodles. Now we are cooking with the proverbial! Well, we at least have the option…

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