Once again our incredible luck has come through. We are in a private home in Oak Grove, getting closer to the Texas border all the time. We have Verizon Wireless signal, both cell phone and data, for the time since early last July. I haven’t used Internet since February 28 – it’s been so long …
For our first day back on the road in quite a while – actually, for any day on the road – today was just about perfect. We did have a fairly stiff headwind, which slowed us down a lot, and we are out of shape for pulling the trailers, but the weather was gorgeous, the …
Day 4 We didn’t get much sleep last night. I worked until well after nine, so we didn’t feel we had time to watch a movie. We wanted to get lots of sleep and feel really rested, so we read for awhile and turned out the lights. The wind had already been whipping around, and …
We’ve now been at Nolan’s since Monday morning. It’s been quite an experience. Nolan starts drinking beer at about nine in the morning, and continues steadily throughout the day until he goes to bed. As he says, he doesn’t drink to get drunk, never has. At 71 years of age, retired from active duty in …
It’s hard to believe that it’s been only four days since I’ve written, because it feels like we’ve been plunged into a radically different world overnight. Nothing seems the same except the fact that Chelsea and I are together and we still have our bikes and gear. We worked steadily on Friday and Saturday getting …
Leaving Gueydan and Lake Arthur “For Real” This Time Read More »
Rain and other weather Rain kept us another week in Lake Arthur, so our leaving date is now Sunday morning. We are so glad we stayed! A cold front came through and stalled out, and it rained more from Thursday through Monday than we have seen the whole eight months we’ve been here. When we …
One big advantage of the rainstorm was that we got to stay and have one last sailing trip with Paul Cassity. The weather was absolutely gorgeous on Wednesday, with the winds almost totally calm – not good for sailing, but great for motoring. We’d had a slow and easy start, motoring out of the Yacht …
We’d gone sailing with Paul early in January, but he left shortly after for a three-week tour of Cambodia and Thailand, so we didn’t have another opportunity to see him till late February. Not only do we love the time on the water, we also thoroughly enjoy our time with Paul. He’s a really relaxed …
We’ve been working on several major projects since Thanksgiving, and things always seem to take longer than expected, so we’d asked if we could stay at the house in Gueydan until the middle of March. We’ve been working on launching two new websites, I’m well underway with our first book, and we’ve been restructuring our …
We’ve been struck with what a unique part beads play in the life of south Louisiana. It’s a longstanding tradition to throw beads from floats at every parade, and there are many, many parades. Just in our time here, we’ve been at the Duck Festival Parade, the Gueydan High School Homecoming Parade, Festival Acadiens in …
