By March 1, 2023, it was finally warm enough to move north of Florida! (If we stay too long in freezing temps, the tanks full of fresh water, along with grey and black waste water, freeze up. Like the…
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Louisiana
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…
