Liralen's Adventures Through Life

 On Wednesday we walked. Right after breakfast, we put on our walking shoes and headed north on the trail. There's a trail right behind the complex we're living in, and it goes fourish miles in either direction, along the coastline, so it accesses a lot of different beaches. I didn't want to go for more than half an hour, as we'd have to make our way back. John had a meeting around lunch time, so we weren't going to go too far this morning anyway.  It was fun to just walk and discover what we could see. The structure of Kaua'i, as an island, is fascinating, as it's the oldest of the Hawaiian islands. It rains constantly at the top of the mountain, and there are countless streams that come down off the top of the mountain. A lot of those streams ate into the rock and made valleys, breaking down the stones into earth, and the plants break down to make it all fertile. So much green. But everywhere there are rivers that just cut right down to the sea, and nearly...

The night before we left, on the TV was the guy in charge of the throws for the St. Patrick's Day parade. He proudly showed off the 1200 pounds green cabbage heads, and I couldn't get out of my head my incredulity at the idea of catching a head of cabbage when I was expecting beads or a doubloon. And as we pulled away from the Garden District, we saw several people in chairs along the parade route and a bunch of chairs were setup too. It was right outside the door of where we'd stayed. If we knew, we might have stayed another night, but it was also good to get out before the crowds. There were cranes and herons out in the wetlands around the city. The white chop on the brown water, and the beauty of the white birds in the brown trees with the green starting to blush on the ground and on the ends of the branches.  We headed out, across Louisiana to Texas. The one stop we took was at a crackling stand. It was pretty obvious that everything that was in the stand was fried in t...