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; […]
Sectional Sofa Tiny House
Here’s a new reason for my latest tiny house to be my favorite: I was able to give it to the enthusiastic state park visitor’s center rep who helped me when we picked our campsite and planned our forays into Memphis. Margaret was actually in the campground one morning (she had rented an RV and […]
Elvis’ Meditation Garden: Shining Like a National Guitar
On our way to Graceland this morning, Tracy and I played Paul’s Simon’s song of the same name, by as many artists as I could find. Each rendition revealed more about the song to me, from Willie Nelson’s brilliant guitarist creating all those complex riffs at the start that bring out the song’s musicality, to […]
Glowing Creek Campground
It’s actually called Cedar Creek Campground; Cedar Creek flows into the Cumberland River, northeast of Nashville, through Tennessee. It’s a much more limited campground than I expected when I booked it, but the sunlight on the water and the falling yellow leaves have made for a peaceful place for us to hang out near Nashville […]
Nashville: Where We Suck at Being Tourists
On our way south for the winter, I decided we needed more urban in our lives (the city kind, not Keith, although see below), so I booked us a week in Nashville, then a week in Memphis, thinking we’d go into town maybe two days each and soak up southern culture. I’ve never been. I’m […]
Maintaining Friendships on the Road
We are just now off of a social tour. (I like to call any special leg of our on-going trip a “tour,” as if we’d mindfully planned a trip with certain goals. Well, sometimes we do, and sometimes tours develop on their own. In either case, naming segments of our routes, ”tours,” makes it easy […]
