We are glory bound! Here is the last post from the United States, currently in Austin, Texas. Tomorrow we cross the border into Mexico and the unknown, for the most part. We plan on taking 4 days to traverse that country into Belize, and will document our journey as precisely as possible so other travellers taking a […]
Houston is the fourth largest city in the US, and once we got close there was no doubting its massive size and number of people. Houston’s highway system is impressive on its own; it has to be to handle around 2 million residents living in the metro area. You can also tell Houston has a
Located in what now is the heart of the Garden District, between Washington, Sixth, Prytania, and Coliseum streets, Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest of the seven municipal, city-operated cemeteries in New Orleans. It is a non-segregated, non-denominational cemetery. There are immigrants from over 25 different countries and natives of 26 states as identified
Established in the late 1700′s, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest extant cemetery in New Orleans and is still the site of several burials a year. The cemetery is the final resting place of many prominent New Orleans families, particularly the Creole population. Upon initial development, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was divided
We are on the road!! I haven’t been able to post in a timely manner, so these are a bit late, but I hope to remedy my tardiness once across the Mexican border. We made it to our hotel just outside Nashville late NYE, settled in for some pizza and champagne, and went deep
While the Indiana legislature had authorized the establishment of a “hospital for the insane” as early as 1827, the doors of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later re-named Central State Hospital) did not open until 1848. At that time, the hospital consisted of one brick building situated on a large parcel of land, numbering
