We had planned to drive the Natchez Trace Parkway from Natchez MS all the way to Nashville, but a 2-week northern Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee detour was required to avoid tornados in the area (post here). We finally got…
We had planned to follow a National Parks parkway called the Natchez Trace out of New Orleans (prior post here) that runs nearly all the way north to another city known for its musical roots, Nashville. Unfortunately, a severe…
If you Google New Orleans, “The Big Easy”, you’re bound to find hundreds of travel blogs with great itineraries that will fill your allotted time. I could bore you with one more and for our own travel records I’ll…
Y’all know that southern states get hot and no, it ain’t a dry heat. We have not spent any time in that special kind of hell, but I understand it can only be described as “hotter than blue blazes”,…
The word swamp conjures up tangled vegetation heavy with Spanish moss, fetid, dark and sinister waters, oppressive heat, and countless things that creep, crawl, slither, and will strike. Too many Hollywood films have portrayed the swamp as a menacing…
From Lake Charles LA and the Creole Nature Trail (post here) we headed to Palmetto Island State Park. We’d been viewing low grasslands for several weeks so it was surprisingly nice to enter a wooded area again.…
At the time of the Louisiana Purchase a large swath of the western part of what is now Louisiana was essentially a neutral strip of land between French and Spanish occupied territories. It was called “No Man’s Land” due…
If you’re in an RV, it’s relatively inexpensive to camp on the beach in Port Boliver just a short (and free!) ferry ride south of Galveston. As you drive to the area, you’ll start to see a shift from…
When he was young, my Dad made a model Sputnik space capsule from my grandmother’s knitting needles and a head of lettuce, all wrapped in aluminum foil,…which probably stunk up his room after a while! My Dad inspired my…
For most of us, picking up the mail is either a necessary evil or an easy way to get outside with a destination in mind. When you aren’t stationary for more than 2-4 days at a time, getting your…
