Rocky Top OHV: Oak Ridge, Off Course

My latest travel article highlights a unique driving experience:

http://www.viewontravel.com/blogs/what-to-see/Where-Rocky-Top-takes-on-a-new-meaning.html

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What To See: Travel Tips

I’ll be contributing tourism articles and features here:

http://www.viewontravel.com/blogs/what-to-see

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Tourism Pros, Promote Your Business Here

Have a product, service, destination, or blog to market? Through web links and guest blogging, social networks, and our own loyal readership, Sports Traveling’s audience is growing. If you have a service, blog, product, or business to promote, this is the space in which to do so.

Those interested in participating in our as part of our link text ad program, may contact bijanc@hotmail.com to inquire about our reasonable monthly or one-time rates. Choose your own anchor text to best drive traffic.

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Sarasota Puts On The Ritz, Golf And All

Latest travel article here:

http://www.justluxe.com/travel/spa/feature-1321898.php

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Summer and Winter Fun in Park City, Utah

Park City is about more than skiing and Sundance, as I write here:

http://www.justluxe.com/travel/spa/feature-1153787.php

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Early Black Baseball in New England

In the 1870’s legendary pitcher “Bud” Fowler pitched for teams such as Chelsea (Mass), the Lynn (Mass.) Live Oaks, and Worcester. With Lynn, he faced Boston’s National League team. Pittsfield’s Frank Grant played with the Buffalo Bisons, Cuban Giants, and New York Gorhams from 1886-1891. Brown University player William Edward White is considered by some to have been player who played one game for the Providence Grays on June 21, 1879, may have been the first Black to play at the major league level. And many believe that painter Romare Bearden pitched, under an assumed name, for the Boston (Colored) Tigers while studying at B.U.

This Thursday (the 22nd) I will be a guest on WBUR 90.9’s “Radio Boston” Thursday afternoon from 3-4 p.m. EST, on the topic early Black baseball in Boston:

http://www.wbur.org/

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Rock Crawling at Wind Rock: Hot Activity in a Once Secret Locale

When Tennessee’s football faithful sing “Rocky Top”, they’re not exaggerating. The latest sports craze in the state, however, involves shock absorbers rather than shoulder pads. It’s rock crawling, and there’s no hotter place to do so than Coal Creek OHV (near Oak Ridge):

http://www.coalcreekohv.com/

Conveniently situated near the Oak Ridge National Lab, and Knoxville’s airport, Coal Creek is home to rental lodging, OHV courses, and scenic mountian views. Whether mountain bikes, side-by-sides, or rail buggies are your thing, you can join the enthusiastic (albeit muddy) aficions at Windrock Park:

http://www.windrockpark.com/

It’s good clean fun, the courses are challenging, to say the least, and there are vids on YouTube to pique your curiosity. Better yet, Get Your Mud On TV was just taping competition here with FOX Sports:

http://www.getyourmudontv.com/

On a clear day, one can see the Smoky Mountains, some 60 miles away, from atop these ridges.

Oak Ridge was a secret city of 75,000 during WW II- the site where the nuclear fission necessary to The Manhattan Project took place. Additional attractions to Coal Creek OHV include the Museum of Appalachia, where there are cabins once occupied by the families of Daniel Boone and Mark Twain, and one that appeared in the t.v. series “Daniel Boone”, the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, the American Museum of Science & Energy, and Green-McAdoo Cultural Center in nearby Clinton, which celebrates the students of a Southern public high school that was desegregated before Little Rock Central H.S.

So the secret is out.

If you go:

Museum of Appalachia:

www.museumofappalachia.org

Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge:

www.childrensmuseumofoakridge.org

American Museum of Science & Energy:

www.amse.org

Green McAdoo Cultural Center:

http://www.greenmcadoo.org/

I’ll be expanding on Coal Creek OHV on travel radio soon. Next hot sport post? YOLO (“You Only Live Once”)- the rage of Southwest Florida! http://www.yoloboard.com/

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