Making my top 3 Thai restaurants, is La Thai Uptown in New Orleans, LA. Great food, superb upscale decor and ambience, and probably the friendliest and most adept staff I have seen at a restaurant, let alone a Thai place. And did I mention very affordable? I of course...
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Nora catching the fever!
Nora's first Lost Sole discovery on Feb. 16, 2012I was wondering how long it would take before Nora showed interest in finding shoes. Wellow I know, Nora located her first Lost Sole at the age of 27 months 🙂 She found it while walking to our local vegan restaurant....
New Orleans Gumbo Crawl
The best gumbo I found so far in the French Quarter was at 441 Royal Street. If you have any suggestions forext time I visit please let me know in the comments section belowSomething I like to do when I visit a city, is find out what they are famous for and then try...
Holiday Travel – Part II
I will start off part II by saying it was thankfully a lot less eventful than part I, but I still feel I need to deliver a part II. The drive to Baltimore up the eastern shore went pretty well. Nora slept the whole way just about. The wind was the only thing that did...
Destination: Brevard, North Carolina
Looking Glass Falls just outside Brevard, N.C. in the Pisgah State ForestThis part of the world is known as “Land of the Waterfalls“. With aame like that how can youot want to visit and explore? Weeeded a stop halfway between Baltimore and Pensacola that...
Museum: Port Discovery Museum, Baltimore
As you can see, the playground area of the museum is incredible!This museum is really big. The center piece being a large multi-level playground with rope bridges, ladders and tunnels. It looked like a lot of fun, but there were too many kids on it as this was a...
Museum: Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga TN
Located in walkable downtown Chattanooga it is close to some great restaurants.This is another Children’s Museum that we got to visit. Now remember these reviews are from being with a shy 2-year-old and areot so much to be used as a review, but just to point out...
Brewpub: Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company
After off the mountain from Wintergreen Ski Resort in Virginia we stumbled upon quite a little treat. A Brewpub in what seemed the middle of nowhere that was reminiscent of a mountain lodge. It was the Devil's Backbone Brewing Company. A great establishment that had...
“Its the Holidays Nora, we’re all in misery” part 1
I took the title from a line in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. If you have ever seen the movie, which I cannot imagine anyone that has not, you probably recognize that quote from when the mother, Ellen Griswold, and daughter, Audrey, were fighting about the...
A breakdown on the way to the hoedown
This shoe, Lost Sole #427, was found while visiting a Mennonite sorghum mill. Their cookies were the bomb. The photo below it was taken at the hoedown itself.Sharon’s aunt’s partner’s son’s wedding was to be held outside Bowling Green, Kentucky...