Things to do in Texas: Texas State Railroad (Fall Foliage Brunch Train)
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, we went home to the UK for a few weeks, I’ve been under the weather (before…
Category: road trip
A pleasantly surprising discovery – Beaumont, Texas.
When hubby announced to me last Wednesday that we were going away for the weekend for my birthday celebration, I was *almost* disappointed. We…
Road Trip! Springfield, Illinois
Did you know that Chicago is NOT actually the State Capitol of Illinois? Well, as it turned out, our brief trip through Springfield,…
Road Trip! Memphis, Tennessee.
Let’s rewind a little (LOT) here, I have been so appallingly bad at keeping my blog up to date and I have a…
You could do worse than Christmas at the Alamo!
Due to some rather crappy confluences of circumstances, we ended up having absolutely nothing to do for Christmas, in a house that was…
Texas road trips: Corpus Christi
The next location on our Texas ‘hit-list’ was a little fishing town called Corpus Christi, it’s about a three and a half hour…
Get away to Louisiana! (Part III) New Orleans; The Attractions
For my last New Orleans blog post, I wanted to take a moment to talk to you about the different attractions we visited…
Get away to Louisiana! (Part II) New Orleans; The Food.
It’s been a while since we went to Nawlins, I think perhaps I wanted the pain of my brother going home to settle…
Get away to Louisiana! (Part I) Baton Rouge
I’ve been having an internal battle about how best to recount my recent trip to Louisiana. After some hm-ing and ha-ing, I decided…
From 'quaint' to the dark ages…
(FYI, I wrote this post a few days ago) I’m bored. I’ve just finished the first of three books I bought, night before…