by adminbeate | Sep 2, 2010 | Travel
The Quiet Gardens There isn’t much tourist-trappy about Shreveport or Bossier City. The real tourist traps are found in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. My impression of Shreveport/Bossier City was that it’s a quiet place. Not a whole lot of things happening. Kind of...
by adminbeate | Sep 1, 2010 | Travel
Lac de la Croix Cross Lake, or Lac de la Croix, just outside Shreveport is a gorgeous place with a public park off to one side and really fancy villas at the edge of the water a little further up the lake. My fascination was with the cypress trees and how they...
by adminbeate | Aug 30, 2010 | Travel
Driving On The Bayou At the best of times, I’m not really good with bridges. It’s the height issue. I just keep imagining the fall off the bridge. I know I’m driving myself crazy with thoughts like that, but you know. Though driving along this long, long, long bridge...
by adminbeate | Aug 28, 2010 | Travel
Braving Tropical Storms For A Few Photos I had always wanted to visit New Orleans, but the idea of a hurricane has always scared the living daylight out of me. I was nervous and apprehensive about going to New Orleans and crossing it off my bucket list as I knew...
by adminbeate | Aug 26, 2010 | Travel
Riverboat On The Bayou Louisiana. The L-shaped state. Alligators. Swamps. Riverboats. New Orleans. Mardi Gras. Hurricanes. Cemeteries. Plantations. Haunted. Voodoo. That’s just some of the associations we have when it comes to this deep-south state. I’d never really...