That drink with each new place to level me & put me in touch with a new spot on the map
Fortunately, our trip down last weekend coincided with the grand opening of a new brewery in Montross, Virginia, the Northern Neck Brewing Co. With a resident chef and a full range of beer styles, the new project certainly looked promising. Read More …
It’s the afternoon of the Saturday before the time change, and it’s a calm, cool day, with a bright sun that warms us only a little bit as we sit at a picnic table outside NN Burger in Tappahannock. The Read More …
Sometimes you need a break…a real Saturday morning evoking your childhood–complete with a bowl of Lucky Charms, sleeping in, and watching cartoons. Okay, so I didn’t do any of those things last Saturday, but I did walk over to the Read More …
It’s not the beach of our dreams, or even our memories. But it’s a strip of sand, and a breakwall, then another strip of sand, and another breakwall, and on ’til the channel that runs into the creek behind my Read More …
“C’mon over on Friday,” said the neighbor. “We should have enough in the traps by then.” It hadn’t been a brilliant year for the crabs running on the Neck, but we’d have a couple dozen by the time the weekend Read More …
What to do on a Sunday afternoon on the Northern Neck? Why, make a foray out to its far reaches, and walk around the charming towns that sit near the water, the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers as they reach out Read More …
When we last visited the Northern Neck of Virginia, and had a flight with our friends at Montross Brewery, we asked them whether the region between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers held any more craft brewers for us to seek Read More …