Published on 08 May 2012
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Traveling Dad says, “Laissez les bons temps rouler”. This is French for “let the good times roll” and a phrase you will no doubt hear on a trip to New Orleans.If you don’t mind a few isolated thunderstorms, late spring is a perfect time to visit the Big Easy. There are boatloads, or River Boatloads that is, of zydeco music, Cajun cuisine, Voo Doo, historical landmarks and nightlife. This particular trip was “grown up” and kid-free, but it was so much fun that this summer a family trip is planned back to the region to tour outside of the French Quarter and into swamp lands as well as the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast…so stay tuned.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be a weather forecaster, be wrong more than 50 percent of the time, and still keep your job?
The kids are antsy. There’s a chill in the air. It’s pitch black and the family should still be in bed. There are several dozen people standing with you on the edge of the mesa staring into the dark. Were it not for the low stone wall, it would be possible to step off into the blackness of space surrounded by stars so bright, the map is readable by their light. Whispered conversations drift through the air like a light breeze. English, Japanese, German, French are heard.
From the back seat it appears the road just drops over the side of the cliff. Behind my head rest I hear the giggles, “We're flying!” Navajo guide Robert Begay turns to the girls, points out the rear window, and laughs with them, “There! That's where you're flying, Eagle Mesa.” The two of them turn around craning their necks as I navigate a steep turn and aim downward into Monument Valley. We’re in the first quarter mile of the 17 mile Scenic Drive weaving our way between buttes and mesas.
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