New Orleans I hit the seam. Landing in the small, Jackson airport, I was on the road and hoping for the best by 1040 PM. I was not alone on the road, but the traffic did not seem worse than usual as I hit McComb, then Brookhaven, and then crossed the line into …
Category: Personal Writings
Fight to Return Part II
Washington In trying to get home the first thing that is pounded into your skull is that nothing is easy and everything takes much, much longer than you ever imagined. The trip from Little Rock to Jackson to Washington yesterday ended up logging in from start to finish around 16-17 hours, slightly less than …
Fighting to Return
Washington Nothing is ever easy in New Orleans, especially coming home again! Though spared the hurricane largely for the usual reasons (arrogance, incompetence, insensitivity, whatever?), the Mayor and the gang do not seem quite willing to let people come home. At one level he is claiming there is a clean-up, but people on …