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 […]
Unglamorous City Camping
I feel guilty about having written three whole posts about New Orleans and not complaining in any of them. Who is this person blogging and what’d she do with Shelly? We did enjoy Nola, that’s not an exaggeration. If you’re reading this post before the previous positive ones, I recommend you scroll to those first. […]
Making the Most of Nola
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, […]
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 […]
Nudist Camping: What Is That?
Hello Everyone, This is Doug and Melanie, the former Airstreamers. We are on the road again. Last year, we discovered a small hot spring resort in New Mexico (and I use the term, “resort,” very loosely). We enjoyed it so much we returned this year and stayed two weeks. The place is Faywood Hot Springs. […]
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 […]
