Fried Grease

This was perhaps the most amazing lunch I’ve ever encountered. It was at a restaurant called “The Old Lighthouse”, located (near no body of water) somewhere alongside of the road leaving Charleston on the way to Tennessee. The meal consisted of fried catfish (“delta-style”), deep-fried hush puppies and freshly-fried potato chips. Each of these items [...]

Environmental Degradation Tourism

For the past couple of years I’ve been working in the environmental sector, giving me the opportunity to learn about all sorts of environmental atrocities that are happening throughout the US and the world. One of the issues that has stood out among all of the messes of our time is [...]

Barbecue and Beer

This was a very tasty pulled pork sandwich from the Gold Dome BBQ in Charleston, WV. Their specialty is topping it with homemade slaw – I love cole slaw and have never actually put it directly on the sandwich before, so this was an interesting treat. And the beer was only $5 for a big [...]

Are we there yet?

West Virginia politics confuse me. For most of the twentieth century the Mountain State had a strong legacy as a blue state. Even now its current governor, both its senators, and two of three house reps are all democrats. So people outside the state were a little surprised when Dubya eked out a victory [...]