Day 24: Giving Thanks, Making Trades! For those of you that don’t know, Mandy and I were able to sponsor two families last year for Christmas and decided at that we would do something fun to raise money to help more families this year. Enter Chuck! Chuck is a squirrel ornament with a great deal […]

DAY: 22 LOCATION: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS TO GAINESVILLE, TEXAS (JUST NORTH OF FT. WORTH) Well, we’re just recovering from a string of days that has left us staring at the bum end of a wal-mart parking lot : ) We got to enjoy Thursday in the afterglow of what I’ve now labled “Engagement Day” (This […]

DAY: 19 LOCATION: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Aaron wakes me, cheerfully…sweetly… “El Mercado, Smoochie, time to wake up and go see El Mercado!”. “Eerrunnnph”. Loosely translated that means “I need to run, but its too cold to emerge, I need to go to the bathroom, but I’m not walking up the hill right now. I need […]

DAY: 18 LOCATION: Lafayette, Louisiana (with an overnight walmart stopover in Houston, Texas) to San Antonio, Texas MILES: 412 We pass through Houston at sunset, a whole day of country radio ringing in my head, and mostly George Strait; “The stars at night – are big and bright, deep in the heart of texas…” We […]

DAY: 16 LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana to Aunt Linda & Uncle Butch’s (Thibodaux, Louisiana) & Cousin Amy and Charles’ Place (Lafayette, Louisiana) On the nights when we just need a stop over on the way to a highlight spot, (and there have been many of them),we’ve taken to staying in WalMart parking lots. We love […]

A quick re-cap – Last Summer Aaron and I, out of a great love of travel, decided we needed to leave in January for two months to Buenos Aires. If you’re among those who know that we’re on a Southwest trip, you will have safely assumed this didn’t work out. We were in the middle […]

Day: 15 Location: Destin, Florida to French Quarter, New Orleans, Lousiana Reason: Remembering Mom – One Month. November 14th, walking, feet sinking in the gold sand, footprints filling with emerald water, the hungry ocean curiously lapping after us, here in Destin Florida and at sunset. I told Aaron “Tomorrow, is one month, could we maybe […]

Day: 10 Miles: 150 Location: Perry, Florida to Apalachicola, Florida I guess there’s some places you go that just get under your skin. For Aaron and I we found just that sort of place in Apalachicola. “Our Apalach” humored us with friendship, with honesty, with a million details for visual feasting…and with that feeling you […]