Louisiana

  • Pinch the Tail and Suck the Head

    Pinch the Tail and Suck the Head

    I have been fascinated with Louisiana since my first visit over thirty years ago. The people, culture, language, food, and coastal environment has captured my attention and is not replicated...

  • Louisiana brown pelican

    Grand Isle Louisiana

    A one hundred mile journey to find Grand Isle Louisiana unexpectedly exposed me to a whole new part of the country. I simply though it would be fun to see...

  • Rita Mae's Kitchen

    Coastal Cajun

    Bayou Area Habitat for Humanity Following the infamous Hurricane Katrina, Oprah Winfrey and Bon Jovi donated the funds to build housing in the coastal Cajun area for those returning to...

  • beignets and cafe au lait

    Beignets and Cafe Au Lait

    Fried dough dusted with a generous layer of powdered sugar primed me for The Big Easy. My first stop in New Orleans without hesitation was Cafe Du Monde. “The Original...

  • Habitat for Humanity - the RV Care-A-Vanners

    Habitat for Humanity

    A group of RVers take a reprieve from their travels and park alongside each other for two weeks in Mandeville, Louisiana in St. Tammany Parish. These nomads then gather each...

  • Doreen Ketchens

    Dew Drop Jazz Hall

    An evening of Jazz with fellow volunteers with Habitat for Humanity RV Care-A-Vanners! Sitting under a live oak tree smothered in Spanish moss, we sat in our folding camp chairs...

  • Louisiana swamp

    Louisiana Swamp

    Heading to Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana, provided me an opportunity to reach beyond the main highways and urban areas. Narrow roads lined with fields of...

  • Tabasco factory tour

    Cajun Country

    The changing dynamic of the various crops growing in each region I travel through presents a continual wave of transition as I traversed a sliver of the country from north...