Your "Daisy A Day" Fix

Rayne, Louisiana--Frog Capital of the World. I wonder why. Hmm...

You know what this is.

At Dan and Martha's.

Willie and Gail's cat house (bel0w)

Our Green Valley living room.




Trailer Trash dog.

Naval Aviation Museum pics

RV park in west Texas

Good eatin' in Biloxi.

Daisy at the wheel.

On, you husky!

...And have you checked out the song "Daisy a Day" by Judd Strunk? Herewith, a potpourri of photos in no specific order since we can't figure out how to reaarange them in proper order of our nightmare along I-10.

The first pic is of the lake we awakened to in the town of Rayne, Louisiana. It rained all day, all night but we somehow managed to pull our trailer out through the water and get back on the road. On the road to Costco! Yes, this has been another "home away from home". Made several trips to the altar of overindulgence but really haven't been able to overindulge because we no room to store 100 rolls of paper towels. Somehow, though, we manage to store our Costco wine collection but it meant throwing out the refrigerator, the stove and the holding tanks. But we do have our priorities. The Costco pictured above is in Houston.

Then, to take things really out of sequence, we stopped in the coastal town of Niceville, Florida and spent the night with our friends seen here -- Dan and Martha. They are wonderful hosts and we enjoyed Martha's famous "Martharitas" at their pool. Hope to see them again. They might be hoping otherwise.

Continuing out of sequence, this is the living room of our other good friends Gail and Willie in St. Petersburg, Florida. Paul spent four years in the Marine Corps with Willie and was best man at their wedding some 120 years ago. We could have spent the night in their beautiful house, but instead stayed in the trailer parked in the street out front. The problem was that Gail and Willie have four cats and let's face it, we don't like our dog associating with a lower species.

The next photo (another living room but small) is our launching pad. Our second home in little Green Valley, Arizona south of Tucson. Just thought we'd stick this in so you'd know we aren't totally trailer trash. But we do have a house with four walls and a roof. Or so we think since we've been on the road for a month and don't know if the place is still standing.

And now shooting about two weeks forward, following the nightmare along I-10, here we are at the history of naval aviation museum in Pensacola, Florida. That's Paul and Willie's old fighter squadron emblem on display pulled from the wall of the Officers' Club at Cubi Point, Subic Bay, the Philippines (sp?).

The next is Paul in front of their fighter plane--the F-8U Crusader. And don't get Paul started on that because he'll tell you with all our technology they have yet to make a plane to rival the F-8.

However, there was the F-14 Tomcat seen here with Paul and Willie that's on display in front of the museum. Paul says not a bad "bird" at all as he was given a two-hour supersonic ride on the F-14 when he was with NBC News. Oh yes, he's quite the guy...

Just ask him.

And now a real flashback about one week into the trip. This was part of the nightmare along I-10. An RV park/big rig parking lot/collection of God knows what right on I-1o in a little town in Texas. But we were pressed for time, got a good night's sleep, and moved on the next day. Such is life on the road. A good and interesting life, I might add.

And do we know a good restaurant when we see one? Traveling up and down the Biloxi gulf coast before it was slammed by Katrina, Paul could remember all sorts of good little restaurants.

But on this trip, all we could find was a damn Hooters.

Finally, since it's all about the dog. Here is Daisy driving Miss Daisy. We think it's funny. State troopers don't.

And probably our favorite picture of Daisy taken last Christmas in Flagstaff, just north of Sedona. Daisy in the snow.

Hey, it's our dog. Our blog. You don't have to read the damn thing. But if you got this far you obviously did. Thanks.

Tomorrow....from "trailer trash" to Trump Tower. And then we're off to Key West on Tuesday with a brief stop in Naples and the Everglades before starting back home.