Category Archives: USA

 We left behind our sweet New Orleans digs at the crack of crazy to get to our swamp tour location the required 15 minutes before it began.  All the traffic we’d assumed we would be battling never showed up, so we arrived early enough to do a quick but futile search for a decent cup ofContinueContinue reading “In which we meet Oreo the Outcast”

Just before we left for our plantation visit, the youngest 2 pleaded for a rest day, which I agreed was probably needed. So it was a smaller group that headed out to Oak Alley Plantation.  Our GPS had predictably determined our plotted-in location to be a God-forsaken goat track so that is where it tookContinueContinue reading “Another goat track”

Today heralded Zac’s 22nd birthday! He kindly allowed us a sleep-in before presents and a yummy waffle breakfast, courtesy of Rouse’s supermarket.  Sadly America dies not appear to stick the glorious fake maple syrup that I love so much from home so I had- you guessed it- a sammitch instead.  We tried the wafer thin AmericanContinueContinue reading “In which we encounter fantastic water”

We cancelled our scheduled walking tour this morning after much agonising over whether to or not.  It was going to cover many of the same locations and we really needed a slower pace today.   I had been a little confused that it was a Free Walking Tour, yet I had paid US $60 for it andContinueContinue reading “Some down home cookin’”

We pulled back into the Duck Commander at 9 to browse the gift shop. By 9:30 we were NOLA bound.   We didn’t realize we had the added bonus of driving through Mississippi on our journey.  The ‘highway’ the GPS chose was a two way road thick with woods on either side; the kind of woods fromContinueContinue reading “The longest bridge to NOLA“

We were on the road to West Monroe by 7:30 in the morning so we got to see a very pretty version of the Dallas skyline. Our breakfast stop was the Tyler Walmart. Is this the famous Walmart that Linda Burklin shops at? I was very disappointed with my soggy, wilted-lettuce chicken wrap. It mayContinueContinue reading “Three vanilla folders”

      We were on the road just before 5 this morning, trying to get to Dallas to drop off the RV by the 11am cut-off.  Once we had retracted the RV slide-outs, the kids went back to sleep. Such a smooth run we had with a ETA of 9:45 giving us a great buffer to clean theContinueContinue reading “A day of muddles”

After another early wake up, I actually fell asleep at around 5:30.  So I ended up sleeping in til 7.   By 8 we were waving goodbye to Patsy and headed for Odessa.  After the rugged beauty of Arizona, this part of Texas is blah.  Dry scrubby flats for mile upon mile with only  oil rigs nodding slowly breaking upContinueContinue reading “Hangry at Texas Roadhouse”

Jet lag once again was our friend, enabling us to be on the road early, leaving the RV park just as dawn crept over the Tombstone country.  Gotta say, I am really missing my morning coffee. All I want is a cappuccino…. The policeman at our first border security stop assured us that our drive toContinueContinue reading “That time we stumbled into a hole in the wall”

I woke up really cold at about 2 am and suddenly wished I had paid more attention to the RV instructional video on how to turn on the heater. Shivering and barefoot, I fumbled my way blindly until my hand grazed the instruction manual.  I huddled up on the freezing little steps next to the doorContinueContinue reading “Tombstone and the shower-curtain-toilet-doors”