Travel Tales: MoonPies

Considering the size of my sweet tooth, the last thing I need to discover is a new sweet treat that tastes like s’mores. This cannot be helped, however, in the South, where MoonPies reign. MoonPies are a cookie sandwich created with two graham cookies, marshmallow filling, and a outside coating of chocolate and, now, banana. Why go…

Storm Warnings

Severe Storms, flash flooding! A soaking rainstorm coming for New Year’s Eve. Lightening, thunder!  Batten the hatches. For days, brightly colored weather maps forecast bands of rain moving from the mainland over Dauphin Island, where I am camped out. More maps showed bands of rain moving from the south in the Gulf of Mexico over…