Adventures in Social Media
Today in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ash began to fall from the sky and the sweet smell of sugarcane fields drifted to my side of the Mississippi. Each year during the sugarcane harvest, the remnants of the sugarcane stalks are burned off. The fields have been burning for a few weeks, but with the winds coming out [...]
Published in 1947 as part of the Federal Writer’s Program, Louisiana: A Guide to the State is a travel guide from the past. Every once in a while I like to research a tourism site or city to see how it compares to today. Take a look below and browse around inside this travel guide [...]
This post was inspired by Paige Bowers who left a comment on my Johnny Adams post asking if selling used golf balls was a lucrative business. For a few months during my golf career, I was assigned to work at Dumas Golf Course in Baker, Louisiana. On busy weekends, or if a tournament was in play, [...]
This morning I did a search for a song to Blip and up popped a name I hadn’t thought about in a long time — blues musician Johnny Adams. When I was in college, I worked summers, weekends, and some afternoons at the public golf course system in Baton Rouge. One of the courses I [...]
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I work in Emergency Services, so I’m well aware of preparation and safety for almost any type of disaster, even the Zombie Apocalypse. Fortunately, during Tropical Storm Lee, I had the weekend off and wasn’t called back in to work. So far. As I lounged around in a caftan, pretending I was really in the [...]
I’ve been on a mission to find some of the most peaceful retreats and destinations spas around North America. I’ve also been fortunate to visit a good many of these places during the course of my travels over the past decade. Here are few places that stand out for me. El Monte Sagrado in Taos, [...]
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I like to eat good food. Meals aren’t just for sustenance, but it’s a time to sit down, entertain the tastebuds, and visit with friends and family. One evening my daughter was at a friend’s house, so the husband and I decided to take our teen son [...]
The floods are not only devastating to the homes that are invaded by the river water, but the media hype has once again scared tourists away. Below is the latest video clip from the AP regarding St. Francisville, Louisana, the city where my parents reside. I’m glad to see a reporter recognizing the impact the [...]
The first season of Swamp People was a hit on History Channel. The second season is finished filming and airs March 31, bringing Louisiana swamps into living rooms all over the United States. I took a day trip to the home of Troy Landry, one of the popular stars of this series. He’s taken the [...]
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