Along the Gulf

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New Orleans

Driving along the coast through Biloxi, Mississippi, we came across Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis. I don’t pretend to understand the hero worship of the Confederacy, so standing in that beautiful house overlooking the Gulf was more about gaining a step back in time than putting someone like … Read More

Beach Birthday

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There was just one nice day in the 10-day forecast, so with a bit of magic, Ouest’s 7th birthday moved up one week and we headed off to Holly Beach. All birthdays start with balloons. A few of them with a dollar slid inside. When we got to the beach … Read More

West

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We are inexorably drawn to the West. We really tried to convince ourselves to go East on this trip. We woke up yesterday morning still planning on going that way, but then we checked the weather, saw that Pensacola was going to get rainy and cold for a week, and … Read More