Giles Hoover, Photographer

Gerald brought home a surprise the other day: a new Mini Countryman. The bigger surprise: I like it much more than I expected — and it looks pretty good, too:   It’s a more mature Mini — larger, four doors, more space in the “boot,” etc. Plus, with six hundred extra pounds to haul around, [...]

Last weekend, I very much enjoyed being out and about doing photography. At the same time — and to me perhaps the only thing better — I got to run the GTI down one of America’s greatest roads: the Blue Ridge Parkway. My car is over-equipped for most of the roads it encounters. A GTI [...]