I’m not sure if this is contrary or not, but in our travels on the freeway/interstates and some side roads through TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, my anecdotal estimation of what the makeup of the cars on the road as compared to San Francisco and the greater Bay Area is that there’s almost no difference. […]
Leaving New Orleans on 10 East, we start to see the rows and rows of the houses that haven’t been restored yet. Some collapsed, many more with search and rescue spray paint still on them. Office parks, freeway exits, big-box stores with trees growing in the empty parking lots. A man at the gas station […]
Courtney asked about those rear-window family stickers where people will put little stick-figures to represent themselves, their kids, their pets, sometimes with names, sometimes with their religious affiliation, “Why do people do that?” “Because they don’t have blogs.” Share on Facebook
Natchitoches, LA. When I first saw this sign on the road, I asked Courtney if it looked like “Nachos” with some sort of verbal flourish in it, like “shizzle”. Then I wondered what the half-life of that term was, and whether I’ve just extended it’s life or hurried it’s eventual demise by using the term […]
Going to start to pack up and head on out to ATL before Courtney totally convinces Katie to join the NOLA Roller Derby Girls. Or Katie convinces Courtney to take up the accordian. (Courtney refers to the trees covered with Spanish moss as “big Gandalf looking trees”.) Share on Facebook
So after a breakfast of benigets and coffee, I took Roy out to the village of Ironton today; it’s where my grandfather was born. Shot pictures of things, like my great grandfather’s church, family graves, the levee. Most of the buildings I remember are gone, blown away in Katrina, replaced by trailers…. Roy could spot family […]
Update of some stuff I’d typed but didn’t have the connection to post. Flagstaff: Arrived in Flagstaff on Sunday, not many auto-shops open. We looked up the Lincoln-Mercury dealership, I figure they can hook the sucker up and know exactly what’s wrong with it, and they happen to be located within about 5 blocks of […]
We’re waking up on the east side of Texas. New Mexico was insane winds, road closures, and dust storms. Texas? It’s on fire. (At Electra, TX) We passed refinery fires, oil field fires, wildfires, saw homes burned down, train tracks on fire, ranches on fire, people evacuated, police roadblocks, the works. The smoke was so thick […]
The head gasket is okay! The water pump, however, not so much. The helpful gentlemen at Babbitt Ford checked out the car, and aside from fixing the pump, everything was okay. We took the car and towed Shorty up and over the San Francisco mountains (6% grade) to see if it threw up again. It […]
As we were limping to Flagstaff, we stopped at a truck stop in Bellemont, AZ. In my stall in the bathroom there was a political screed: “OBAMA JUST WANTS YOUR MONEY AND YOUR FREEDOM YOUR ?????? AND YOUR GUNS something else innocuous HE IS THE NEW HITLER” Race wasn’t even a part of it. Brave […]