Author, reporter and all-around swell guy Dave Lavender will be signing copies of his new Dave Trippin' book Friday at Borders - here are the details:
On Wednesday, gas just hit $3.99 in Huntington, and if want to go traveling in the region this Memorial Day Weekend and into the summer travel season, it’s good to be armed with knowledge of good places to go close by.
Road warrior and Herald-Dispatch travel and entertainment writer Dave Lavender has penned the Tri-State’s first travel book to encompass all three states.
Lavender, who was born and raised in southern Ohio, educated in Kentucky, and lives in West Virginia, will be signing copies of his book, Dave Trippin: A Day Tripper’s Guide to the Appalachian Galaxy of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 23 at Borders Books and Music Cafe at the Huntington Mall.
Featuring nearly a dozen trips in each state and hundreds upon hundreds of cool ideas for places to go, “Dave Trippin” takes readers on an always adventurous and usually humorous family journeys to lots of great places within an hour or less of Huntington and no place further than a four-hour drive.
Check out trips to some of Appalachia’s coolest towns such as Berea, Ky., Athens, Ohio and Fayetteville, W.Va., and the region’s big cities including Lexington, Columbus and Cincinnati.
Carved out of first-hand travel experiences, “Dave Trippin” (the book) is birthed out of The Herald-Dispatch Sunday travel series that started in 2003 and that continues today with Dave, his wife and award-winning photojournalist Toril Lavender, as well as their sons Timothy Jacob, 8, and Will, 5.
Lavender will also pass out free copies of the Herald-Dispatch’s just-released, Spring/Summer edition of the Tri-State Travel Guide, as well as Tri-State Family in which Dave gives some great summer-time tips for places to go.
“From Mountain Stage to Bob Evans Farm to Camden Park and the Kentucky Music Trail, we’ve got great, world-class things to do without handing over your entire paycheck to the oil companies or trading one of your kids for another full tank of gas,” Lavender said. “My motto is to think globally, and travel locally.”
On Friday night, Lavender will be joined at Borders by fellow Scioto County, Ohioan and award-winning songwriter Steve Free, whose songs are played all over the world on radio, will be performing at 8 p.m.
Free, who also plays this weekend at Camden Park in Huntington, was just honored with a Governor’s Award for the Arts, a prestigious statewide arts award presented to him by fellow Scioto County native Ted Strickland.
“Make a short run for the Borders to catch one of the most well-traveled and breeziest folk singers in the Tri-State and stop by the Dave Trippin’ table to get some great info on places to go traveling with your crew,” Lavender said.
For more information, go online at www.davetrippin.com and www.myspace.com/davetrippin.
Go online at www.stevefree.com for a listen to some of Free’s latest tunes.
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