Hello readers, no real blog post today. I am writing this from a Hampton Inn in Martinsville, Virginia and am anxious to get out to see Hooker Field, which used to be English Field and the home of the Martinsville Phillies and then Astros. Martinsville’s history with affiliated baseball started in 1939 but ended in 2003, the last time I was here.

Although I had hopes of updating my blog everyday it turns out that I already know that I don’t wish to spend the first few hours of every day sitting in a hotel room writing when I could be seeing that which I set out to see. I think there is a solution to this but it will have to wait until I am sitting at a computer for a bit longer.

Here, though, are a few pictures from the first three days of this journey. More from Atlanta tomorrow