Our week in New Orleans has been beautiful, dirty, loud, wild, yummy, exhausting, colorful, and every other kind of description this unique city might conjure up. Here are some random pictures interspersed with stuff I’ve learned. Our tour guide of Garden District architecture taught me a bit about what life is like here. You say, […]
Author: Shelly
Former nomad, currently adjusting.
The Sazerac House
I’m writing this whole long post about just a couple of hours we spent touring a liquor museum because: Okay, Sazerac is a New Orleans company, and its main product is a rye whisky that’s one of the oldest products of Nola. Sazerac’s history is wrapped up in the history of Nola as a city—through […]
Camping in the French Quarter
This was Tracy’s idea six months ago, and it’s an awesome one: Let’s make Thanksgiving special by spending it in New Orleans. FQRV He booked us a week in an RV park that’s oddly located right where a person would want to be: just a couple of blocks away from the French Quarter and Garden […]
Housekeeping in Texas
In the 2.5 years we’ve been traveling, we’ve stayed in the same place only 3 times (the Airstream lot in Ohio and near Tracy’s people in Iowa). This is the 4th, at what’s technically our home base north of Houston: an easy drive to our established doctors, our mailing service, and the county where the […]
Light Music Bar Tiny House (what?)
Finally, I can say that I truly hated making this Tiny House. I bought the kit because I was excited to have found a bar (the kind you drink in) as a Tiny House, but then I found the incomparable Green’s Bar for Doug, and I stashed this kit, in its box, for emergency use […]
All’s Quiet on Cypress/Black Bayou
Unlike with those last couple of posts, I don’t have a story to tell here. All really is quiet in our little spot of northeast Louisiana. We’re camped at a recreation and water conservation district (aka a lake created by a dam, with surrounding land turned into a park). It’s a little confusing what the […]
Exhibit A: An Hour in Arkansas
We’re camped at Lake Chicot State Park, in the southeast corner of Arkansas, right off the Mississippi River. I posted last about kayaking here among the Cypress trees, which was phenomenal. The campground itself is very quiet right now during off season, with only one RV in our loop, and that RV pulls out and […]
Kayaking the Largest Oxbow
You probably know this, but I didn’t: an oxbow is a water formation that started as a big curve in a river that got cut off, as in the river took a short cut through the curve, for whatever reason, and kept going, leaving the curve on its own as a separate body of water. […]
Memphis Camping
We’re in a state park south of Memphis called T.O. Fuller, named after a Black politician who worked for the rights of locals here in this rural, seemingly forgotten area. How do I know this? From the lady I associate with this park, Margaret, who gives you a full tour of what to do in […]
All the Feels in Memphis
We’ve gone into Memphis three days in a row this week, and it still doesn’t feel like enough. (You know that’s significant coming from me.) The thing is, Memphis has such a deep history in civil rights; it’s on the beautiful Mississippi Delta; its old architecture is gorgeous; the people we’ve met are super-southern friendly; […]
