I am not a science fiction aficionado, nor am I an alien watcher, but I have friends who are. As a result, I couldn’t get close to Roswell, New Mexico without taking it all in. I’m extremely glad I did because for a small town in the middle of nowhere, this town has its tourism […]
Las Cruces is near the epicenter of three national parks and a couple of other attractions I wanted to see. Once I had resolved the car issues and felt comfortable driving again, I set out on my first trip without my RV. I first headed back into Texas to El Paso and then went north
I-10 starts at an elevation of seven feet above sea level in Orange, Texas and by the time you reach El Paso, the elevation is 3,740. My 2019 Kia Sorento SUV, which I dearly loved, was rated to haul my trailer. But, as my friend, Greg Temple, told me, “Yes, it was designed to haul
A significant part of my travel is about looking for great places to take pictures. As I left New Orleans, my next stop was Oak Alley Plantation, which was commonly featured for it It began as a sugar plantation in 1820, when it was purchased by Valcour Aime. It was sold to Jaques Roman in
The day after I took Jeremy to the airport, I went to Jean Lafitte in the bayou of Louisiana. There, I took another airboat ride through the western bayou. The difference between a bayou and a swamp is that a swamp is usually stagnant water, while a bayou is a very slow moving (almost stagnant)
I have been to New Orleans (or N’awlins) twice, once in 1969 coming home from a baton competition in Houston, Texas and the second one in the mid 80s when I went with Myles to set up the opening of the World’s Fair in New Orleans. The first time, I was too young to explore
The first time I saw the ocean was in Long Island Mississippi. The next time was a couple days later when we spent 5 days in a small motor lodge on Pensacola Beach. The carefree vacation was the first ever taken. In the 55 plus years since I first was on the Emerald Coast, (It used
From 1967 to 1969, there was a show on evening television called “Gentle Ben” about a little boy, his pet bear (named Ben), and his father, the park ranger. The story took place in the Florida Everglades and the father routinely drove an airboat for work. Since that time, I had wanted to see the
After I completed visiting all 50 states, I set my sights on seeing all of the 63 National Parks and as many of the 428 National Park Service sites (Monuments, Seashores, Historic Sites, etc) as possible. When I set my sights on visiting all of the National Parks, there were only 58. A few of
I have been a Jimmy Buffett fan since college. His song, “Changes in Latitude, Change in Attitudes” resonated with me. Growing up in Ohio but always feeling like I was from Tennessee, I didn’t have to go all the way to the Florida Keys to feel the difference. That said, I have never been to
