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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 don’t build...
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 reminds me of where I...
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 literally grow out of...
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 - a little over 29 km...
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 August was still officially hurricane season....
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 heard of Louisiana until...
The Scenic Route
The coastal drive down from San Francisco to Los Angeles is a scenic and beautiful drive, and if you’re in no rush to reach your destination, there is plenty of places to stop. For the photo-enthusiasts of us, there are too many places to capture beautiful...
The Hills Are Alive – With My Screams!
If you have a fear of heights, there is little that is scarier than driving the San Francisco streets. I’m good with heights. Until I look down. Then I just get paralyzed and I have this crazy urge to scream my head off. Going up the San Francisco hills isn’t so bad....
Yep, It’s That Big Red Bridge Again
There are easily twenty other places to see in San Francisco when you’re only there for a couple days, but we could not resist taking another trip to the Golden Gate Bridge. Call us gullible, call us tourists, call us suckers - but we had our morning coffee with a...
Japanese Tea Garden
The Golden Gate Park is huge. And it has a lot to offer for everyone. Gardens, museums, playgrounds and even a beach. We chose the Japanese Tea Garden. Simply because it was something we’d never experienced. The garden was gorgeous with its bridges, statues and...
That Big Red Bridge
Even if “vacation rules” state that you can sleep in regardless of what day it is, you can’t help but wake up early on your first day in San Francisco. You know you’re limited on time, and there is just too much to see and do. One of the things every tourist “has to”...
A Whole Lot Of Nothing
Taking the I-5 the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco is incredibly long and incredibly boring, and it seems endless because there is nothing to see between the two cities. Well, if you like to watch endless fields of farmland pass you by, then sure, there’s...