On the White Line

When someone says, “Y’all should stay at my place in New Orleans,” you do it. You don’t think about it; you graciously take them up on the offer, and you thank your lucky stars for such generous friends. We spent last weekend a block from Bourbon Street in the heart of the French Quarter gobbling [...]

The Louisiana State Capital… a bit of a different design from many other capital buildings.

It might seem hokey, but the talking raccoon, turtle, alligator, and pelican at the Atchafalaya Welcome Center near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is pretty well done. The stop gave us a nice introduction to Cajun Country.

We spent our day in the swamp yesterday… well, rivers, bayous, lakes, and marshes… but they all have a few similar characteristics here in Louisiana… trees growing out of the water and an amazing array of nesting birds. Absolutely gorgeous. Especially our the Nature Conservancy at Lake Martin. We didn’t get to see any alligators [...]

  Each summer I scavenge the beaches in Ireland, in search of “chanies.” Those are little bits of broken dishes and glass that wash ashore… often from English shipwrecks in the Irish Sea. This week, we settled in at an RV park in Shulenberg, Texas, and I was able to put my creativity to good [...]

Schulenburg, Texas, prides itself on homemade bakery and meat. We tried the bakery. It was pretty good, but it’s Good Friday, so we couldn’t over-indulge.

We got to see the giant squirrel, but no nuts at 8am in Sinton, TX.

No, we haven’t added wings or fins to the RV. We simply stopped in Ingram, Texas, where a guy created his own representation of Stonehenge. I’m not sure why, but he made the stones shorter and wider than the originals and didn’t orient them to the sun. He also decided to add two replicas of [...]

Corey and I both woke up early in the Walmart parking lot in Las Cruces, New Mexcio, so we decided to hit the road before sunrise. That got us into El Paso, Texas, just in time for the morning rush hour. From the highway, we got to peek over the fence into Juarez, Mexico.

Okay, so maybe I wasn’t in Vietnam, but visiting the Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Phoenix on Palm Sunday was about as close as I could get with the RV. From the road, only the large silver crosses on the roof suggest the enormous Temple is Christian. A very nice parishioner proudly gave us a [...]