Travel News
Made it to New Orleans Halloween. Garden District set 1 day 2. I stayed with friends in the lower Garden District in New Orleans, and got great photos of the Halloween fun mixed with New Orleans charm. See more photos for sale at the following: https://www.deviantart.com/fh7publishing
Epic drive to Louisiana in shrimp county. This is my October journey for 2019. It is a good thing I do love shrimp or I would starve around here. 
Oh no car issues! Trip delayed by two days.
Oh no! Car troubles! I will have to wait a couple of days to get it fixed to go! Oh well Halloween night is not until Thursday. Good thing I started out extra early. I still can’t wait for Halloween. Richmond does have a few costume contests I did want to check out. Plus Richmond has a few concerts and DJs to check out in addition. It will not be a Halloween free weekend.
It is with great euphoria that I reach one of the parts of the year when I can get back to New Orleans and Austin! And get the crap OUT of Virginia! I want to be to the towns, but I do NOT look forward to the travel.
The part of Virginia I sometimes hate, is there is NEVER anyone good to date. I never have issues outside of Virginia. Virginia just lacks any kind of a good dating world AT ALL! I am just going to need to leave town ALL the time!
Many thanks to my family for helping me to collect supplies for the road trip. For a couple of weeks I will be seeing the towns I am so homesick for missing daily. Things are on schedule for Friday.
RV Van I Love You
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RV Van how I love you so!
Out of the nightmare pit I get to go!
I fix you up and drive away!
Free out-of-town a BETTER day!
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RV Van I dream of you!
All the road trips that we will do!
Live music BANDS we get to see!
See FRIENDS we miss! We are now free!
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See towns of fun, it has begun!
New RV Van you are the one!
To guys so nice we soon will drive!
To dates of fun we will arrive!
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Drive from pits of evil despair,
Away from people who DON’T care.
RV Van how I love you so!
Away from nightmare pit I get to go!
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(Poem in honor of the RV Van minivan my mom just got for road trips.)
Today Alexandria joined the Senior Class of Monacan High School. I dislike the nightmare pit of Virginia, but I like that Alexandria is doing well! I tell her daily that if she loves her mommy she will help move her away from here. So far she is doing a great job! This will NOT be an area I visit back to when I leave. At least this week I was able to get my mom to buy an RV Van so that we can leave town more often so that I can survive for a while in this bad crime area. It is NOT what I was used to in Texas.
The Halloween Mystery of the Black Camera and Ruby Stone by author Andrea E. Menzies is on sale now on Amazon for $7.35 per book! If you have young readers in the house they will love all the Zoo animals at a Halloween party! FH7publishing is down this week for updates, but it is still for sale at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JK6GRY5/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
I admit the fact that I love Virginia way more now that I have been paid once at a new job. They say money is not everything, but just try living without it.
I took a trip to Austin to check out SXSW and promote my latest podcast episodes and published books. I managed to run into an old friend the actor, singer, bartender, and guitarist Austin Moore on my visit to Austin, TX in 2018.
Austin says that he enjoys working bartending and door work at Stubbs BBQ as much as his music guitar work. He has worked as a bartender in many clubs including the famous Elysium Austin Club. I am the girl on his left in the photo below. He has worked many computer jobs, and was working a dayjob for Facebook in Austin at the time I interviewed him. He still gets a kick out of people recognising him from his acting work in the Austin based movie “Dazed and Confused” that he was in as kid. He likes to decorate his house with spiritual and witch art from around the world. His love of fiction books influenced his song lyrics in later art. Austin’s favorite hobby aside from music is watching movies at the Alamo movie theater in Austin, 5 blocks from his house.
