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2020 Washington Auto Show
The last time I visited a new-car show was back in 2013. The show was the Louisville New Car Show & Carl Casper’s Custom Auto Show, held at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. I was there on my first assignment for Insider Louisville, where I would take photos for a slideshow post about the show. The story was never published. Seven years later, I would visit a new-car show in our nation’s capital. The show was the 2020 Washington Auto Show, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC. This is my story.
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Just drive: My favorite road trips of the New ’10s
Though I've only been on the road for a year and a half, I managed to make the most of it with lots of adventures. Here are my favorites from the New '1
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Just drive: My top three favorite rentals of the New ’10s
I've driven more than few rental cars upon the highway since regaining my license in 2018. Here are my top three from the last year and a half of the New '10s.
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Mecum Gone Farmin’ Fall Premier 2019
America’s heartland. When anyone thinks of farming, they think of the Midwestern United States, where the majority of our food (and a lot of the world’s) is grown, harvested, and shipped off to markets far and wide. Billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and tons upon tons of wheat, corn, beef, pork, and soybeans, all of it found among the 12 states between the Northeast, and the Southwest. Farming wouldn’t be where it is today if it weren’t for a Vermonter who moved to Grand Detour, Illinois in the 1830s, a blacksmith named John Deere. In 1837, Deere introduced a significant improvement to the cast-iron plows used by farmers in…
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Curtis Motor Cruiz-In Fall 2019
A couple of days after attending the 2019 edition of the WAPA Rally, I took my rental 2019 Nissan Maxima SV down the street to check out the latest gathering of classic machines at Curtis Motor Company in Christiansburg, Virginia. According to Joe Curtis, the proprietor of Curtis Motor Company, he’s held five other “Cruiz-In” events prior to the one I attended; I also attended the Cruiz-In in late June of 2019. For him, it’s just a way for his friends to get together and show off their rides to anyone and everyone who rolls down upon Roanoke Street. Curtis Motor Company has been my neighbor since I moved into…
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WAPA Rally 2019
Two months ago, I received an email from a PR firm in Uniontown, Ohio. The owner noticed my work for Ford Truck Enthusiasts, wanted to let me know about a classic Bronco on display at United Pacific Industries in Long Beach, California, and wanted to meet me. She also asked if I lived in SoCal. When I told her I actually called the New River Valley in southwestern Virginia home, she asked if I would be interested in joining an automotive press organization based out of Washington, DC, adding she would connect me with its president. And that is how I became a member of the Washington Automotive Press Association.…
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“Just drive,” she said
At the start of the New ’10s, I was fumbling around on Tumblr when a new friend of mine added me to their curated Twitter list of fashion bloggers. I wasn’t a fashion blogger, so I became one, opening what would become 33 avenue Miquelon on March 10, 2010. From there, I would make the most of my tenure as an independent fashion blogger, the highlight of which would be attending New York Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011 in early February of 2011. Yet, I would not continue on this path. At the same time I closed my blog for good in October of 2013, a new highway opened, one where…
