Work Trip - Carolina Recycling Association Conference - Asheville, NC - March 2012

I was afforded the opportunity to speak at the Carolina Recycling Association conference in March of 2012. Owen and I took the dogs, visited Raleigh, stayed at our favorite Asheville cabin and then headed home to Washington DC via the TN and VA mountains. What a beautiful trip. We saw some very cool towers also.

Kingsport. TN. This is a horrible picture but it looks like a great tower . We'll need to head back and get a better close-up picture. 

Wytheville. VA. Owen got this one. Very colorful.

Mount Jackson. VA. The best tower was this one of an apple basket. The top needs to be repainted but we had a great time exploring it. 

Bowman Apple Products. In Mount Jackson makes apple sauce and cider. Go figure. No wonder the water tower has an apple basket on it.

Work Trip - Recycle-Bowl award ceremonies - last stop TN - February 2012

As you may know, I administer a school recycling competition called Recycle-Bowl. In February 2012 I traveled for 11 days straight doing school recycling award ceremonies. Many days I was in and out and without a car. However, the last award ceremony in Franklin, TN allowed me to rent a car and visit my friend Bryn in Murfreesboro prior to the event. I have never seen a water tower like the one I saw in Murfreesboro. Check it out.

This thing was all concrete. It looked like something from space.

Franklin. TN.  I then headed to Franklin TN for the TN Recycling Coalition conference where we awarded  a school the TN Recycle-Bowl award. I will admit, it was one of my worst presentations ever. All the traveling had caught up with me and I was super sick (could barely talk). Not to mention I had lost my work computer, tried to mail myself my personal computer which Fed Ex lost so I was unhooked! Crazy, crazy trip.

I took a minute to drive through downtown Franklinton though and found this great old factory, and water tower, that had been restored to a bunch of shops.

Vacation to Chattanooga, TN - July 2008

Chattanooga. TN.

The Rock Tenn Company water tower was along the TN River down from our cabin. According to their web site - they are one of North America's leading manufacturers of paperboard, containerboard, consumer and corrugated packaging and merchandising displays.

Check out my home video of our vacation.