Welcome to @Logue, the homepage for authors Frank and Victoria Logue. Please enjoy wondering around this home on the web.

Our latest non-fiction book is The Guide to the Blue Ridge Parkway in its Third Edition. Money Magazine said of the first edition, "There are over a dozen Blue Ridge Parkway travel guidebooks in print, and I consulted many of them before and during my trip. By far the most useful were Victoria Logue, Frank Logue and Nicole Blouin's Guide to the Blue Ridge Parkway...a slender but informative volume that gives mile-by-mile breakdowns on everything the parkway has to offer." Buy the third edition here.

The Appalachian Trail Hiker is in its fourth edition. Thanks are in order for Laurie Potteiger of the Appalachian Trail Conference and the recent A.T. thru-hikers who helped us in the revision process. The strength of the book has always been that it is not "the Logues' book" but incorporates the experience and opinions of dozens of hikers with thousands of miles of experience on the A.T. The biggest change to this fourth edition was the incorporation of an ultra-lightweight perspective, which has become an increasingly important philosophical approach on the A.T., particularly for thru-hikers.

Victoria's first novel, Redemption, is available online and in stores. You can find out all about it at her website: http://victorialogue.com/recent.htm Redemption tells the entwined stories of the notorious Vlad III and Wolfdietrich, the vampire he created. The book sweeps through centuries of history and from California to Berlin, Rome, Turkey and the Carpathian Mountains of Romania in tracing the journey of evil back to its source. "Wolf" has found love, but can a vampire find redemption?

Hiking Info and Links

• Looking for advice on backpacking with children? This article has some tips to get you out on the trail whether your child is a babe in arms or an active older child.
• Want to backpack 100 miles or more in a trip? You'll want to check out our article on Long Distance Hike Resupply.
• Loop hikes along the Blue Ridge Parkway gives you the goods on five day hikes. The hikes are three to five miles in length. We also have an article on the 10.8-mile long Rock Castle Gorge Trail, which is just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.

Appalachian Trail Info, Links and Books

• Appalachian Trail information area, with state by state info and links.
• Two coloring pages from the Appalachian Trail Fun Book. There are drawings of McAfee Knob and Trillium to print and color.

Photography

Some stories and photos from their summer of 2007 trip are online here: Italy and France. There are also photos our earlier trip to Egypt online with photo pages by Victoria, Frank and Griffin each.

• Still sorting out the basics of photography? Take a look at the article on Understanding Shutter Speed, or the one on Understanding Film Speed to help you sort out some of the basics. Or look into this article on Improving Your Landscape Photography.
• In addition to the Egypt photos linked above, a gallery of artsy black and white photos from our hiking trip to Israel is now online at The Land of Israel: A Black and White Portfolio. We hiked from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, visited Jerusalem, and then hiked in the Negev desert.

Stories from Georgia's History

• You can also check out sections from our book Touring the Backroads of North and South Georgia, with some interesting characters and events from Georgia history. They include Fort Mountain's Mysterious Wall, The World's Strongest Man, General Sherman's Georgia Romance, LaGrange's All-Female Civil War Militia", Ellijay's Only Legal Hanging, and the odd tale of a boom town gone bust in Lorenzo Dow's Curse.

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