Category: travel

  • First Trip Captures Posted

    First Trip Captures Posted

     Quick post to let everyone know that Dixie has posted the edits from his portion of the trip.  I’m trying to recall most of the stops we made but I’m sure we will make better notes on our next trip.

    This portion for me was from Atlanta to Oklahoma City with main stops listed here:

    Spectre – fictitious town from the film “Big Fish” near Montgomery, AL

    Prattville, AL – home of the Pratt Cotton Gin

    Old Cahawba Archaeological Park – near Orrville, AL and abandoned first permanent state capitol of Alabama from 1820 to 1825. Also called Cahaba.

    Meridian, Mississippi – Abandoned amusement park “Royal Land”

    Jackson, Mississippi 

    Shreveport, Lousianna – best city Welcome Center that impressed Peep.

    Paris, Texas – Stopped to see the little “Eiffel Tower”, Texas styled with cowboy hat on top.

    Most of the travel was along state highways off the interstate system, but we opted for main towns for better hotels to get our points.   We love adventure but still love to be rewarded also.

    You can check out all the images from the trip on the Flickr group for Forgotten Main Street.  That group is also a great place to comment and start discussions for future destinations or to share your favorite places.

    Here are a few preview images from our first trip.

  • The New Adventure

    The New Adventure

    Welcome to our new adventure!

    This venture started to form during a “man-trip” with Fielding and Robert, a.k.a, Peep and Dixie.  We have been close friends since our military days in the late 1980s and only have seen each other in person twice previously. It’s amazing how we can go several months without talking and then pick up exactly where we left off as though no time had passed.

    This trip, ATL to OKC, was Peep’s idea since he wanted to travel cross country back to his hometown of Bellingham, Washington from his temporary work location in Atlanta, Georgia for his birthday.  Dixie was not able to make the time schedule work but instead hopped a plane to ATL and rode shotgun until OKC.  It was an EPIC trip with ample time to catch up on life’s moments in detail and reinforce the relationship and our photography passion.

    This project of Forgotten Main Street was the idea of the two of us traveling off the main interstates into the smaller towns that time forgot.  We want to bring attention to the people and places that time passed over because of economics, interstate traffic, local industry closures, etc.  We hope that this vision entices other creatives to help bring to light these wonderful places of importance and others can see the beauty in areas just around the corner.

    Here are a few selfies of the guys and we hope you follow the website for updates.  We would love to hear your comments or places we should visit.