This is the second of a series of travel guides over the course of 22-year-old Tobi Thompson’s 48-state Road Trip. Read about her motivations behind the budget-friendly endeavor here. We were ...

The lonely 61 miles of TX-49 start in Mount Pleasant and take you just about to the Louisiana border. If Caddo Lake doesn’t hold much appeal, you can make this just part of your trip to nearby ...

Southwest Louisiana has long gone its own way. In the early nineteenth century, it was a no-man’s-land claimed by both Louisiana and Spanish Texas, and it remains a land of divided loyalties, a ...