Ross & Alice,
Thanks for the LEO tales!
Mark
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Ross & Alice,
Thanks for the LEO tales!
Mark
Thanks for the kind takes.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
Here is a pic of the shear 500 ft drop cliff hand & foot holds one uses visiting the Mesa verde Cliff Dwellings.
The chains and wire aren't to assist you, they are there to catch you when you fall.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P6190367.jpg
Got plenty of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Editor
Lots of adventures. Those "thugs" were everywhere when I lived in New Orleans. I always told them to get lost. We even had one that we "knew" that hung out at a gas station just off I-10 on Carrolton Ave. We finally figured out that the "exact amount I need for my bus fair to my sick grandmother in California" was the price for a pack of cigarettes.
I've also been approached in New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation with a really creative tale of having to walk to Tuba City.
What all are y'all going to do in Louisiana? Just let me know if you have any questions. I've lived there all my life.
Laura
We're in Baton Rouge as I type this.
Camped in a mom and pop campground across the street from the Chevy dealer.
The grounds are divided into daily, and "rates".
A good little biz for the young couple that runs it.
A nice atmosphere, and for $28 U.S. a nite, one can't gripe.
They have a little campground cat they call "tux" that comes over to visit us.
He's a little mudball, and a fun character of a cat.
Alice dropped off the kids at her ex-inlaws for the nite.
Teriffic people, but they're her ex's,,,,,
So we have an evening off. I like to collect interesting T shirts and tank tops with location names on them.
Like Lou Lous bar and grill down the street.
I find if you sit to have a drink, locals will ask you questions, and one must always answer like "Ya ain't trying to be nobody".
Wife finally has time to study for some medical credential exams coming up next week. Yea,, starting to get back in the swing of home life, though still on the road.
Must be boring stuff she's reading.
She'll put down the textbooks to watch me tie my shoes. Anything is more interesting than to study.
- chloroform in print as Mark Twain would call it.
Alice worked at the close-by Baton Rouge Medical Center hospital for some years, and has fond memories of the teriffic staff and patients.
Best place she ever worked she says.
Whole new definition of thunder here in Louisiana. It is loud, and it is teriffic.
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When a GM car dealer has the Goodwrench sign up, it means they'll service any make GM vehicle.
So,, tomorrow will be an oil change, and a nasty exhaust leak repair on our GMC truck at the Chevy dealer across the street.
All my GM trucks get the same exhaust leak about 100k miles, our Toyotas too.
All the car dealers along Florida Blvd are in new facilities. Looks like Toyota op'd to move or quit.
Friends we had over the years that own car dealers were either very conservative and run a successful car biz,, or they had brutal gambling problems and folded the business at first chance to break even.
That first chance usually was a fire or earthquake, perhaps Hurricane too?
We've seen people beat every habit out there, drugs, booze, spending,, but I've never seen anyone break a bad gambling habit.
Friend folded his Ford Dealer last year.
A really excellent place to do business.
He said it was Toyota that got him, but we know better, it was the Mirage Hotel and Casino.
Everything looks new here in Baton Rouge. Perhaps Katrina re-newal?
One thing I miss over past visits to the South is Seal Test ice Cream.
Seems to be gone from the landscape.
Sealtest sold out to Kraft, who in turn, sold to Good Human, who produces quality like,,,,,,
It was better when the old man ran it.
The horizontal poverty thinking seem'd to have vanished from the South too. Vertical thought, that is,, looking up to a better way of life seems to have taken over the whole south.
Jim Crow is dead too thank goodness.
On to Texas,,,, then to the Carlsbad Caverns tour, and to watch the flying hamsters (BATs) evening flight from the caves.
Navigating MacBook Photos can be a trying experience.
The Apple store has a Mac Book specialist, and when we return we'll discover how picture editing can be "saved".
A lot of our pix need to be rotated, but the photo features on Mac may or may not let you do this trick or eliminate red-eye.
And if it will, it won't let you save changes, it defaults back to the original un-edited pic.
So,, when we return home, we have lots of pictures we'll load into windows, and do a final run down.
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data...190341-med.JPG
Mesa Verde Cliff dwelings Ranger tour guide.
Please forgive the duplicate pix:
Mac Book lets you edit photos, but when loaded to a host gallery, they revert back to the un-edited pic.
Let's see if we can change all that:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P6190362.jpg
One of many tight passageways one must navigate at the Mesa Verde Indian Cliff Dwellings NM. Rotated 90 degrees. Not a place for those who don't like tight places. I drag'd my beer gut through it, you can too! 7 year old Maynard.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P6190350.jpg
Tunnel leads to the Balcony room, 500 plus feet from the canyon floor.
Rotated 90 degrees.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P6190342.jpg
One of several long ladders one must climb to enter the Cliff dwellings.
The bottom of the ladder is 500 feet above the canyon floor. Half way up you get the picture how hairy the location is.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P6190367.jpg
Our 7 year old climbing out using the orig indian hand and foot holes carved in the rock cliff facing.
The chains and wires aren't guides to help you climb, they're a net to catch you when you fall.
It's a hairy climb, not for those who don't like heights. It's the only way out, no chicken exit.
Rotated 90 degrees.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P6190369.jpg
Pic rotated 90 degrees. Wife about to climb one of several hairy ladders exploring the Mesa Verde Indian Cliff dwellings. If you don't have a head for heights, this isn't the tour for you.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...3/P1010114.jpg
National Corvette museum, Bowling Green Ky.
Should be called the National c4 Corvette museum.
Pic rotated 90 degrees.
A Spectacular blow out has us spending the night in Shreveport Louisiana.
GoodRich All Terrain left rear on our GMC.
Severly damaged the fender, completely eliminated the inside wheel well.
We pulled over to change it,, calling AAA first. Of course AAA didn't respond.
Buzzards started pulling up around us, so I quickly changed the tire myself., we made a quick reservation at a nearby campground, and rolled in for the night.
Tomorrow will be to get the tire replace under warranty, and yet another RV wheel replaced while we're at it.
We are in the middle of a stalking incident with a neighbor camper.
The guy has a very nice expensive MotorHome and tag along vehicle, but followed the wife to the laundy room,stood there & starred at her, then followed her back, and is in front of his MoHo stare-ing at our site.
I'll pull our rig together in an hour, and we'll depart arriving at the tire dealer at opening.
Naturally report this to the campground office, and insist no info about us be givin out.
That's it for now,, heading out.
I have had my share of blow-outs on the road, but never a stalker -- although we have had folks knock on the door late in the evenings many times.
Be safe and keep having fun.
Mark
But yay on being in Shreveport. Yeah I know it's just another town to you, but it's my hometown and I'm finding myself ready to get back there. Two more days and I'll be in my own bed with my own pug.
Laura