new orleans

On to New Orleans

Posted by Duwan Posted on February 12, 2020 1 Comment

Posted in Louisiana, Mississippi, National Park Service, Travel On The Dirt, United States Tagged black history, Hike, Holiday Celebration, Louisianna Tradition, National Park, new orleans, NPS, Plantation, Science Center, Wildlife

December 18 – 24, 2019. I may have mentioned before that I have a niece, Ariadne, who lives in New Orleans. Whenever we pass by her way we stop to visit. We always do something fun and completely different from…

Guitars, Kayaks, Friends, & Family

Posted by Duwan Posted on November 26, 2019 4 Comments

Posted in Louisiana, Texas, Travel On The Dirt, United States Tagged Cemetery tour, Kayaking, Luckenbach Texas, new orleans, Texas, travel, van life, vanlife

May 15 – May 31, 2019. It was mid-May by the time we left New Mexico for our long journey back to the southeast. We’d done this trip once before – a long drive through Texas, stop in Louisiana to…

Journey 8.0 Begins

Posted by Duwan Posted on November 23, 2018 6 Comments

Posted in Alabama, Louisiana, Nomading, Texas, Travel On The Dirt, United States, Van Life Tagged Cypress Knees, Cypress Trees, Family, Food, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Louisianna, new orleans, Swamp, The Iguanas, vanlife

October 22 – October 30, 2018. This fall we begin Journey 8.0, our eighth year (!!) of wandering and our third year traveling in Ballena Blanca. Just like our sailing years, each season as we have traveled across North America…

Leaving Indiantown

Posted by Duwan Posted on February 26, 2018 8 Comments

Posted in Life on the Water, Travel On The Dirt Tagged Alligator, Battlefield, Cypress Trees, Escape Room, French Fry Po' boy, friends, Ghost Tour, Music Box Village, National Forest, new orleans, Ocean Pond, Olustee Civil War battlefield, Osceola National Forest, Parkway, Po' boy

January 3 – January 23, 2018. Journey to Tucson, First Leg. When we left Indiantown Marina on January 18 we had one small plan, get Greg to the dentist. For sometime now Greg has been spitting out deattached crowns and…

Posted by Duwan Posted on February 20, 2017 1 Comment

Posted in Louisiana, Travel On The Dirt, Van Projects Tagged new orleans, van projects, vanlife

December 19 – December 27. I spent a lot time in New Orleans worried about rats. Worried they would get stepped on, worried they’d play with the cats too rough, worried they’d hide food in my bed, worried they’d get…

Three National Parks

Posted by Duwan Posted on February 13, 2017 1 Comment

Posted in Alabama, Louisiana, National Park Service, Travel On The Dirt, West Virginia Tagged black history, Harpers Ferry, Jean Lafitte Park and Preserve, National Park, new orleans, NPS, Tuskegee Airmen

During our van build we took a little break at Thanksgiving time to visit some family in DC and Pennsylvania. We had our bed frame installed, so we decided to make it a mini adventure and do some boondocking and…