More New Orleans biking

Historic home visits
Scenes from bywater district
Street name desire
Older houses in bywater neighborhood
Traditional fare in New Orleans
Cafe du monde
Birds in city park
Mississippi River
Painting of New Orleans home
Festive New Year’s Day dinner
Black eye peas and other southern cooking

Swamp boat ride and New Year’s Eve activities

We started the day with a boat ride with friends on the bayou Segnette.

Bayou
Cypress trees and knees
Fishing cabins
Fishing villages
Many abandoned houses
Swamp
Biking New Year’s Eve with lights near French quarter
New Year’s Eve Fireworks displays over New Orleans
Fireworks at new year

Street cars in New Orleans

Today we rode the New Orleans street cars and visited magazine street for coffee and poor boy sandwich and walked and visited various neighborhoods.

Canal street line
Poor boy sandwich
Coffee at French truck coffee
St Charles street trolly line
Other coffee houses
Cemetery
Saint John boyou
Mississippi River
French quarter

Lake Pontchartrain

Today we walked around uptown New Orleans and then went sailing on lake pontchartrain.

Waking on magazine street
Houses on magazine street
At the helm
Large waves from high winds
Sun setting at west side harbor
Some local shrimp with dinner
Scott did a plain air style Painting of Mississippi River near st francisville Louisiana

Xmas in New Orleans

We had a wonderful Christmas stay with Alicia’s Dad and Eden in New Orleans with wonderful food and gatherings and holiday music.

Holiday cookies
Christmas Eve events
Holiday singing
Street cars
Practicing holiday songs
Xmas morning brunch chefs
Bourbon street
Walking the streets of New Orleans

More New Orleans

Today we biked around various sections of town and visiting uptown and downtown.

Morning walk on waterfront
Mississippi River
Auobon park

Trolly on Saint Charles street
Coffee stop at French truck
Back visiting in French quarter
New Orleans jazz in French quarter

New Orleans – Louisiana

Amazing dinners
Piano caroling practice
New Orleans

We are visiting Alicia’s dad and family for the holidays.

Large city park
Bands on the street
Band in street

Preservation hall
New Orleans style houses
Art work shops
Coffee houses everywhere!

Saint Francisville

We camped right on the Mississippi River just outside st francisville Louisiana.

Camping on Mississippi
Driving A 4wd vehicle on family farm
Visiting family in st francisville
Plantations- st francisville
Visiting family from the past
Family farm in st francisville

Louisiana

We drove into Louisiana and spent our first night at palmetto state park. We visited a few gardens the next day including rip van winkle -Jefferson island and aveary island.

Welcome center with free coffee
Ponds in pallmento state park
Jefferson island
Abandon boats
Old houses
Shrimp boats
Rip van winkle garden house
All of the houses are raised off the ground
Tree lined roads
Jungle garden on Avery island
Jungle garden
Old oak trees and moss
Mocha in Lafayette
Visit with Gerald- Alicia’s cousin
Jungle garden

Texas

We drove across Texas and visited two pct hikers. The first hiker stop was Fredericksburg Tx. The second was college station.

Texas visitor center
Fredericksburg
Peach pancakes
Texas gas stop
Pct hiker snooze and family visit at college station Tx
Snoozes big family visit

Crossing into Louisiana

Las cruces and white sands national park New Mexico

We spent an evening in las cruces and camped just outside of town on blm land.

We first camped in lordsburg nm where the cdt crosses the 10. We hiked a short distance on the trail shown here

Next we drove to Las cruces where visit book stores before camping there.

Morning sunrise at blm campsite
White sands national park
Doing a snow angel in sand
White sands dunes
Hiking on big dunes
Lots of sand !

Chiricahua national monument

Today we drove from Bisbee to Chiricahua national monument and did a 9 mile hike in the park.

Driving to the park
Old ranch houses
Hiking the loop
Amazing balanced rocks
Wonderful trail loop
Driving back to the i-10
Bowie az

More Bisbee Arizona

We spent a full day exploring the wonderful art town of Bisbee az. We stayed over night in an old hotel one night and stealth camped another night. We took several town walks and visited shops and coffee houses the amazing public library. In the evening we attended a local junior high and high school holiday music program and then visited an open mic jam session later

Waking around town
Bisbee
Coffee house
Coffee house
Public library
Art alley
View of town

Bisbee Arizona

We drove from Tucson to Bisbee az to visit this art town.

Bisbee
Houses on steep hills
Our hotel above the old Woolworth store
Glass blower in shop

Hiking the Arizona trail

Blueberry pancakes in van life
Camping on blm land outside of Tucson
Hiking sections of the Arizona trail
Biking In saguaro national park
Collassal mountain park