Venice, Louisiana, at the end of the road

We’ll need a map for this one! Far from the French Quarter, where the road south ends, we found Venice, Louisiana, and one of those unexpected experiences with great food and conversation. Traveling south along LA -23  the scenery was less than we expected given...

Settling into to Granada, Spain

3/25/2010 “How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!” Ernest Hemingway, American novelist. There would be much to see and do in this historic and beautiful city in the coming weeks. But now I share...

The Next Road Back to Málaga, Spain

3/24/2010 Our plane  landed in Málaga, Spain on March 19, since then we have traveled to Ronda, Cadiz, Tarifa, and Gibraltar and now back to our beginning. Málaga is home to roughly a half-million people, about 100 km (62 mi) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about...

The next road to Gibraltar

3/23/2010 The next road from Tarifa, Spain, led to Gibraltar, which is more famously referred to as the Rock of Gibraltar. Did you know it is under British control? One minute you are driving along in Spain and the next, passing through British customs. The history is...

The Day, The Place, One Man’s Peace at The End of the Pier

Some days you leave the house for a seemingly normal outing and then WHAM! life confronts you with the profound and wonderful where you least expect it. That’s what happened to us yesterday. We left our temporary bayou home around 9:30 a.m. and drove to the...