The Great River Road

A Soggy Day in Baton Rouge

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June 20, 2023

The end of our 2023 winter road trip offered an opportunity to see a nice chunk of the Great River Road on our way back to Wisconsin. Although the weather forecast looked pretty dreary, our next three nights were already booked so we headed out for parts unknown up the Mississippi. Too bad we didn’t […]

The Big Easy Revisited

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June 14, 2023

As our 2023 winter trip winds down, this post is a compilation of several days of exploring during our second visit to New Orleans in as many years. We dug a little deeper into its history and it was nice to see the city from this new perspective. Click on the first photo in each […]

A Day on the Mighty Mississippi

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June 10, 2023

We moved into our new digs in New Orleans and the very next morning departed for a day trip to Darrow, LA with my cousin. Just one stop included a massive Great River Road Museum, an authentic southern lunch buffet, and a gorgeous plantation home with lovely gardens. Click on the first photo in each […]

End of the Road Part Two

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May 22, 2022

This post continues along the Mississippi River to the literal end of the road, ALMOST to where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Our need to see things thru to the end was cast aside when we discovered if we walked out a little further, it was posted that we would be shot. […]

So Long Snow 2022

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May 13, 2022

The End of the Road Part One The first destination of our 2022 getaway will also serve as some of our last in an upcoming blog series. Some time next year we hope to check off as many historic cities as we can along the Great River Road during several mini-trips. So stay tuned! The […]

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