The Schexnaiders are an amazing family, and they definitely need their own section in our writings. We first met Lee when James Thibodeaux took us into Abbeville one day. James and Beth had told us about Lee and Sheila, but without ever really seeing which house they pointed out, and without meeting them, it was …
Now I must say that flying in what looks like a funky go-cart with wings and a lawnmower engine was never high on my list of must-do’s. In fact, flying in anything smaller than a 200-passenger jet was never on my list of want-to-do’s. Suffering from a fairly acute sense of vertigo and fear of …
James Thibodeaux is the guiding light behind the airfield, and is the one responsible for getting it built. Piece by piece, he and Beth (his wife) and close friends built the airfield and cabin and hangar, and it’s his love of the place that keeps it going, along with the amazing crowd of people he …
June 7th, 2008 Shane Stelly is one of James’s ultralight students. He’s learning to fly an ultralight for business – his family owns Stelly Farms, part of which is an alligator farm. They raise and skin anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000 alligators each year. The process starts with finding the alligator nests, which had previously …
June 5th – 17th, 2008 Hi Everyone, Sorry about the long silence… on a trip like this we have discovered that there is an inherent conflict with staying in touch – we either go out and have the adventures or we stay back and write about them. We have chosen to be out having the …
Getting out of Centerville It should be no big surprise that we got bed at almost 2 a.m. on our last night in Centerville, considering how much fun we had with Russ and Paul, and considering how much we were getting done. We managed to not only get rested after our hellacious Memorial Day weekend, …
We have died and gone to heaven. We are about 12 miles south of Centerville LA, down Hwy 317, staying with CouchSurfing hosts Russ and Paul. Back in 1989, Russ moved an old slaves quarters house onto his land, now measuring perhaps several acres. The land is bounded by 317 in front and by sugarcane …
We got a great start out of Lake End Campground – leaving about 8:30 – and headed out towards the city itself, and the first major bridge of the day. Only about 4 miles into our ride we reached the bridge, and in trying to figure where we should be to cross it, we were …
Saturday We awoke Saturday really feeling happy, and very proud of ourselves. The air temperature had cooled down a lot during the night, and the morning dawned clear and beautiful. We hopped up on the bikes and took off for a short ride around the campground, to get ourselves oriented. We planned on getting food, …
Leaving the comfort of the hotel in Donaldsonville was really difficult. We hadn’t stayed at a hotel in nearly a year, and the comfort and privacy were awesome. This particular hotel even had a decent breakfast included with our room rate – hardboiled eggs, toast, biscuits and gravy, fruit, cereal, coffee, juices, etc., so we …
