Reader alert: If the word ass is offensive to you, stop reading this post now. So, I was crabbing last week in Southwest Louisiana, which is Cajun Country, heavy on outdoors activities, music with an infectious beat, and plates heaped full of over-fried food. They fry everything here. I met a man who fries Oreo…
Some of us begin the day with a doughnut. In Southwest Louisana, you might get started with a boudin ball. Matt Fontenot mixes boudin. According to boudin maker Kevin Downs, he sells as many morning balls of boudin as the local bakeries and fast food joints dispense doughnuts – 500-700 balls a day. Boudin…
Off Grand Turk, in the Turks and Caicos islands, south of the Bahamas, I went fishing. Anybody who knows me might wonder about that decision, but the simple truth is that I saw “Light Tackle Fishing” on the shore excursion list during a Caribbean cruise on Holland America’s new Nieuw Amsterdam. I thought, why not?…
Five tourism projects — two in New York City and three in Canada — are winners in the 2010 Phoenix Awards from the the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW). Phoenix Awards recognize conservation, preservation, beautification and anti-pollution accomplishments. In New York, SATW honored the High Line, a vertical public park, and the Central Park…
On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Highway 101 runs along the Pacific Ocean between Queets and the Hoh Indian Reservation. To the east are the rain forests of Quinault, Queets and Hoh. You'll find some vast beach views and access to the sand at several points, including Kalaloch, above, and below, where great gobs of drift logs are piled high…
Hood River, Oregon When you look over the wide Columbia River from Oregon toward Washington on the other side, you might conclude that the white caps on the waves that seem to be traveling west to east — left to right — are the result of a very heavy current. Well, there’s a heavy current,…