Month: September 2026
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A Closet Appointment and Several Excellent Detours
A quick trip for an IKEA closet appointment became a full Gulf Coast weekend featuring the Creole Nature Trail, conveyor-belt sushi, LSU football, Couturie Forest, garden inspiration and Hansen’s sno-balls.
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Whitewater, Baseball & a Few Unplanned Swims: A Three-State Weekend
We packed a lot into this three-state weekend road trip: rafting the Ocoee and Nantahala, an Atlanta Braves game, hiking Huckleberry Knob, driving the Cherohala Skyway and, naturally, a few unplanned swims.
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The Big Detour: When Our Renovation Became a Rebuild
Every good odyssey needs an unexpected detour. Ours arrived shortly after demolition began, when we learned there was a surprisingly insignificant financial difference between bringing a house built in 1953 fully up to modern building codes and rebuilding it from the ground up. This was not part of the plan. We had spent months carefully…
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A Weekend Detour to Bentonville: Bikes, Dinosaurs & a Diamond Hunt
We packed the mountain bikes and headed north for a whirlwind Bentonville weekend filled with trails, national parks, swimming holes, roadside dinosaurs and even a hunt for diamonds.