From Shelly: Here are Doug and Melanie’s notes and incredible photos from their recent trip through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. This is a fun and beautiful summary! Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas The sand hills are not huge here, but they are interesting. Melanie left her mark that I am sure will last forever […]
Month: December 2022
Lazy Beach Bums
I feel like I should post this last time about camping on the beach near Galveston, but I haven’t done anything worth posting about. I hardly have photos. No stories. No local dialogue. The laziness upon us is like a drug. We don’t have to pack a bag for the beach; we just step outside. […]
Beach Camping!
I’ve been watching this style of iconic video for so long, and finally I get to make my version. Okay, so my beach isn’t pristine (and neither is the interior of the trailer), but … we’re BEACH CAMPING! Finally. For ages I’ve seen RVers post about camping right on the beach, and we’ve driven by […]
Tabasco Sauce Is a Big Deal
I didn’t know this until we spent a day at the McIlhenny farm and factory and bottling plant, all on an “island” in southern Louisiana. It’s called an island because the land is a big circle and much higher than surrounding flat Louisiana; it’s, interestingly, a naturally occurring salt mound that was shoved upwards during […]
Eating Our Way through Cajun County
We’re wrapping up a week in a small town in south Louisiana called Abbeville, which we picked because we love the little bit of this state we’ve seen on two drive-throughs and wanted more before our winter stay in Texas. We’re right in Acadiana (a term somehow I’d never heard) aka Cajun Country. I tell […]
Doug and Melanie in New Mexico
Hi all. We spent two short weeks at Big Bend National Park on the Mexican border. It is a beautiful, rugged part of the country where even dried mud can be art. The scenery is stunning. It varies from river scenes along the Rio Grande, to desert landscapes to mountains and magnificent night skies. But […]
