@mizgolightly
#Author scribbling in longhand. Reader. Daydreamer. Wanderer. I #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #WritingCommunity A New Orleanian wherever I may be. Copyedits made in purple pen. Opinions, I have a few= And they're absolutely positively solely my own.
Welp. As the first lap of my #HeauxBeauxDreams came to a close, here’s a frozen Mississippi River as we entered Minnesota.
Being largely off grid while riding the rails meant missing y’all. But I’m terra firma for a lil bit. So get ready for me to Shuffle Up & other shenanigans…from yours truly!
☮️💟
Welp. Tonight on the Shuffle Up:
The Judgement/Solomon Burke
[h/t my daddy]
I've not been 'round much of late.
My uncle passed away. My train travels, diverted.
The last time I took the train from LA to New Orleans was for my grandmother's funeral.
Good night, Uncle Ralph 🤍
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Welp. Once the air gets briny and the landscape gets soggy…you know you’re home.
New Orleans is less than an hour away. Home to say goodbye to my Uncle Ralph 🤍
That’s an awesome haul! 🤩
Hahaha 😆
I’m on yet another train! Heading to New Orleans…with my cousin joining me!
Still aiming to drive it at some point! 🚂
Welp. What happens when a #bougieyetbasic heaux beaux takes the train?
This…
#HeauxBeauxDreams New Mexico style!
Good night, Garry! I’m on the rails again. This time for New Orleans.
There will be photos 📸
Absolutely! 💯
Thank you! 😊
So cool, Laura! It was great meeting you after yoga—see you soon hopefully! 🧘
Me. Big. Too…
Absolutely love him…
“I hope you enjoy your time together!”—
Billy Zane (as *perhaps* my favorite character in Titanic)
One of my favorite things to do when flea marketing is go through random (often cigarette) boxes of family photos—particularly if there are inscriptions or notes!
Ack!!! I went through miles of fields with sheep and goats. And I missed getting a single picture…
So here’s a picture that was *close enough* lol the fields were about an hour later 😂
Yowza. This is the view from my “office” today. Riding the rails is all right by me…living la vida boxcar 🙃
#HeauxBeauxDreams
Oh, heavens no! I’m riding the rails alllll the way into March.
Behold! Montana avec neige, from your favorite boxcar dreamer!
#HeauxBeauxDreams: First leg, still…February 18, 2026.
Evening, Blewskis, coming to ya live from your devoted dreamer! Minnesota, we hardly knew ya…
#HeauxBeauxDreams: Second leg, 3 acts—February 17, 2026.
[Accompaniment—Gladys, GLADYS!!
And that midnight train…
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Bwahaha 😹 the Alt text is the best part of this post! Thanks? Garry 😅
I’m HERE for the RANDOM shouting 😆
You know all there is to know! 😅
Y’all. In the dining car, you sit communally—first come, fill ‘er in like sardines. A young Amish man was seated in my booth. Lemme tell ya, the whole meal, I was trying to figure out which “Murder, She Wrote” I was secretly living in, because… iykyk 🙃
Seriously. There is only one JIM ROCKFORD.
Full stop. And it’s the character played by James Garner…ever.
Umm…
Phew. It’s nice and chill here. My mellow was being harshed elsewhere in smedialand over a figure skating move I sincerely question most viewed live in 1998 when it happened.
Because, guess what? Figure skating up til +-2000 was demonstrably about “girlie skating.” Full stop.
Skaters remember 😒
This is heaven! I’m in the first coach car. I’ve been buttering up the conductor and have just under 12 hours to schmooze my way into the locomotive so I can DRIVE!!! Toot, toot 🚂
Welp. I’m riding the rails for the next while, seeing the country, slowing my roll. This is my first sunrise as we rode through Montana…
This could be addictive…
#HeauxBeauxDreams
Thanks, Garry!
I’m awake! I’m awake! Going to go get myself some of this, because yummm! 😋
