Pay attention Raleigh.  This is what you want.  This is the new baseball stadium Winston-Salem built (for the Dash) downtown.  Hit the jump for more pictures and post in the comments where you would locate this stadium here.  Me? I am partial to the area between Hammond Drive and South Wilmington Street.  I think I could walk there for games.  I even have a compromise – let’s call it Lightner Field and forget the public safety center.

I am almost positive that the current vampire craze (True Blood/Twilight) is directly related to the writers watching Sesame Street’s Count von Count as children.  If you are reading HBO please make one an arithmomaniac.  Not only would it be a great tribute to the Count but it would stay true to vampire folklore.  (And you thought Sesame Street made that up.)

This is one of the pics from the recent Hilton Head trip.  We were biking around Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge and got a tip that a rather large alligator wasn’t too far away.  Of course we had to go take a few pictures.  I’ve shown this picture to a few people and they asked how close I was to the animal.  In hindsight – maybe too close.  Video after the jump – I took this picture with a Nikon D3000 and a 55-200mm zoom lens.

So I’ve been delinquent in posting a lot of the awesome photos I’ve taken (and others have taken) as of late.  I know – if you are more than an accidental visitor you are aware I am less than dependable when it comes to timely blog posts.  I apologize that it has taken as long as it has to get these up – hope you enjoy.

BTW – the images in the Chasing the Shuttle galleries that are in focus and look really good?  Those were taken by Courtney Davis of Crabtree Creek Productions fellow RVer and awesome photographer.

Chasing the Shuttle
Atlantis STS132 – 05-14-2010
Magic Kingdom – 05-13-2010
South of the Border – 05-12-2010

Independence Day 2010
Savannah, GA – 07-04-2010
Hilton Head, SC – 07-03-2010
South of the Border 07-02-2010

So time to work on the next adventure – the final shuttle launches are in November and February.  Maybe another road trip to Florida?