We spent the weekend in Louisiana, camping at a state park outside of New Orleans. After driving several hours across the southern states on I-10, we drove through the city traffic to arrive at Bayou Segnette State Park around 6:30 in the evening. We couldn’t see much of the park, but it was a warm [Read More]

Last week, we spent five wonderful days in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, at the beach house of Jon’s uncle. This stop wasn’t part of our original plan, but we revised the plans after Uncle John offered us the chance to stay at their place for a few nights. So appreciated! The beach house was perfect [Read More]

It has been a week full of family, festivities, and food! I am truly overwhelmed by the warm–hearted generosity of Jon’s extended family in Alabama, many of whom are related simply by love rather than blood. After leaving Florida, we drove through Georgia to arrive in Clayton, Alabama on Friday evening. We spent last weekend, [Read More]

We’ve spent the past three days in Florida, and it’s been awesome to be back in warm, sunny weather! We drove from Savannah, Georgia to St. Augustine, Florida in about four hours and pulled into our campsite near dusk. The difference in scenery was pretty dramatic. The darker greens of forest shifted to the light, [Read More]

Well, I’m officially in the Deep South, and it’s a place of great contradiction to me. In the northeast, people seemed very uninterested in each other; everyone was occupied with themselves for the most part. I found myself regularly missing the friendliness of Nova Scotia! In DC, it was particularly striking because people were often [Read More]