by adminbeate | Sep 3, 2010 | Travel
A Southern Plantation I’m fascinated with plantations. I’m fascinated with the architecture and the historical aspect of it. Well, maybe fascinated is the wrong word, it would be more correct to say that I love the style of these old, southern looking homes. They just...
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...
