Louisiane Motel Natchitoches

... cane processing plants.  Older houses on brick pillars to allow air to circulate underneath.  Newer houses with no cellars looking like they are dug into the ground. Magnolia trees everywhere.  For Dormans among the readers, smells of boxwood and honeysuckle on the air, and the gingerbread architecture makes me think of Orient. SERIOUSLY.   I am standing by Uncle Gel's goldfish pond and he comes around the corner of the barn....  Hot and sultry weather.  But then this evening a warm ...

... walk and is bordered by an assortment of shops and boutiques. The city has identified this area as the Historical District. Natchitoches has long been known for its popular Christmas lighting festival which is held the first Saturday in December. In 2008, the festival will celebrate its 82nd year. We usually hate it when the sun goes down as it ends the sightseeing for the day, but ...

March ,12 - Today was girls day out. Marsha and I went to Hemphill for an afternoon of girl stuff - shopping and beauty salon. We went to some interesting shops including a clothing store, health food store and one of the local nurseries where we met Mr. River Phoenix (that was the name the owners had given him) there was a Mrs. also. He was such a beautiful rooster that I had to include it in this travelogue.

... through Texas. I still need to tweak a few things and my next project is making a dual headligt setup. My plan is to setup the lights to have both on, one on, and neither on. The hardest part will be to fabricate the assembly to hold the lights, and to figure out how to mount it to the bike. I think I will also incorporate a way to secure a tool bag to the light mount and windshield.

... jig but Huck would state was actually a "school-house sissy" dance. Huck was right of course. Further attempts produced fewer fits until MJ ended up as Munchies hook-loader. We carried on pleasantly "feeding the fish" in hot, humid but fortunately cloudy weather. Scores on the doors....MJ - nuttin', Huck - nuttin', Munchie - 2 large and 1 small bream. The discussion then turned on who was to benefit and it was determined that it would be Maw unless ...

Lazy morning watching loads of boats wizz by up and down the river. Huck and MJ went down to fill up the party boat (a pontoon boat like we went on in Steamboat). There is a boat launch at Keiths a few plots down and about 2pm we were on the boat which is very luxurious - we steamed towards the town for about 45 minutes looking at the houses on the banks. The weather was reasonably sunny and we felt like millionaires. At one point we met the son of ...

... Charlie Dupree, died in 1914 and she married Emmanuel Hunter in 1924. The two worked at Melrose Plantation in Northwest Louisiana for many years. Melrose Plantation, under the guidance of Cammie Henry, became a Mecca for the arts and numerous artists and writers routinely visited. Noted New Orleans artist Alberta Kinsey left some discarded tubes of paints after a visit in 1939 and Clementine used these discarded paints to "mark a picture," thus beginning her career ...

... anywhere near the pickups. We watched the brass band and "dance line" (a higher class of cheer-leader) in a procession and then headed out to this fish restaurant in the middle of nowhere- where we ordered too much and indirectly provided Michelle with a few nights meals back at college via the American habit of ordering a "box" for the left-overs. After the meal we went back into Natchitoches to watch the music festivities which were on ...

... by the huge median's between the highway which appear to need mowing - it must use a ton of petrol and seems entirely gratuitous. Not really much to report - just a day in the car but when we got the Huck's place....well it is an estate. He must have originally owned 90 acres along the Cane River Lake which is a wide as the Thames around Reading - it is dammed at each end but has a small current flowing along it. He's sold some plots off but there is a mile dirt ...

... ers and an apple in the high cold air of the glacial cirque (defending his trail mix from marauding Colombian Squirrels), Chere enjoyed a tuna sandwich from the Park Café. Absolutely no pie - repeat - no pie was involved. Hunting the Retreating Glacier After a lunch with views of the glacier, Ranger Rick led the hikers to the retreating glacier. The area of rubble they crossed had been covered in ice hundreds of feet ...