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• Training for New York

  

  Most of the basic details of our trip were planned months ago, including our train trip which started last night in Atlanta Georgia and has now deposited us... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2011 TRAVEL

• Tummy Time USA (9)

  

  Regular Tummy Time readers might be surprised to know that Pam and I have stopped off at the McDonald's chain of restaurants at least a dozen times on this... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2011 FOOD & DRINK

• Stumbling Across Charleston

  

  "Hey look, a Maserati dealership," said Pam, as we motored into Charleston. That sign of affluence was a portent of more to come, and to tell the truth we didn'... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2011 HOME

• Atlantic Shores

  

  We're moving so fast right that our blog is about 400 miles behind us! We've made it to Atlanta, Georgia now, the end of the car-driving part of this memorable... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Southern Elegance

  

  There really is no place that compares with Savannah, Georgia. It is elegantly, beautifully on its own as a city, and if you can somehow get here one day, do it... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Tummy Time USA (8)

  

  Woo hoo! We've made it to the East Coast. Savannah, Georgia, one of the most beautiful cities you could hope to walk around, but more of that tomorrow, once... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2011 FOOD & DRINK, HOME

• Tummy Time USA (7)

  

  I'm calling this the Soul Food edition of Tummy Time, although Pammy thinks it might be closer to the mark if I called it the Southern Fried edition of Tummy... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK

• Sweet Home Alabama

  

  While studying countless city road maps on our long drive across the US, one road name we have encountered everywhere is 'Martin Luther King'. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 GARDENING

• Farewell Crescent City!

  

  It struck me that while I have been happy both in New Orleans and Natchez in Mississippi to stand there and admire the broad Mississippi River, I hadn't actuall... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Down in the Treme

  

  I had never heard of the Treme district of New Orleans until that wonderful HBO Television series of the same name appeared earlier this year. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Tummy Time USA (6)

  

  Tummy Time 6 comes to you from New Orleans, one of the crossroads of American cuisine, where the flavours of the deep south blend in with Creole and Cajun... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• New Orleans Notebook

  

  Where do you begin with describing New Orleans? I know, just wander around, like we did, and so this posting is a bit of a wander around New Orleans. Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• On the Banks of Lake Ponchartrain

  

  Woo hoo! We're in New Orleans! If somehow we weren't allowed the luxury of eight whole weeks driving across the USA and were restricted to spending just seven... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Mississippi's Spanish Moss

  

  If you remember from our stay in Galveston how we loved the old houses there, especially the more modest homes of we commoners, well Natchez offers up a more... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Cajun Maisons

  

  Hi everyone, Gulliver here, reporting from Natchez on the Mississippi River, in Mississippi. Jamie and Pam are having a bit of a break here, just poking around... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Two-steppin' in Cajun Country

  

  Having toe-tapped our way across Austin Texas, our next musical destination was Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Acadiana, or Cajun Country, where accordions... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2011 TRAVEL

• Tummy Time USA (5)

  

  We've made it to Lafayette in Louisiana, the heart of Cajun Country, and there's a big list of foods I have to try here, so the best place to start is with... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2011 FOOD & DRINK

• Galveston, Oh Galveston...

  

  What we intended as a mere stopover on a longish road trip from Austin Texas through to Lafayette in Louisiana proved to be a lovely little visit tinged with th... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Tummy Time USA (4)

  

  It seems we're always playing catch-up at the Tummy Time USA blog. It might be morning down here by the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Texas as I write this, but... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2011 FOOD & DRINK

• Toe-tappin' in Austin

  

  Having seen four bands in two nights here in Austin, Texas our country-style foot-tappin' toes are plumb tuckered out, folks. When I complained to Pammy... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2011 TRAVEL