This seven-chapter series about our 9-month Civil Rights Trail RV road trip – an official NPS trail launched in 2017 with more than 100 sites of interest in several dozen locations across the United States – has come to an end.

Until our Civil Rights Trail Series began, our subscriber numbers always increased with every post. The big shocker is hundreds of followers canceled their Living in Beauty subscription during this series! Perplexing? Yes. Humbling? Yes. Fortunately, you are still here and we value your interest in our journey all the more.

We encountered disturbing revelations and uncomfortable truths on every RV stop along The Civil Rights Trail. Yet, our faith in America is renewed!

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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” - A.A. Milne, creator and author of Winnie The Pooh

Some of the world's greatest stories involve bridges.

Building bridges...

capturing bridges...

crossing bridges...

and lighting them afire.

For better and worse, bridges establish challenging and sometimes incompatible connections.

"Burning Bridges" can mean a bad decision made in haste or it can mean a deliberate act of self-renewal.

Every bridge crossing is an epochal moment, a promise to transport you into the future.

Beauty and the Beast are our Bridge to Adventure, our Boredom Evacuation Plan.

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In the late 1960's in California, I lived near the beach. Beaches were a place to chill, play volleyball and wax your board. But the song "Galveston" introduced me to a completely different idea where the beach was a place of poetry, mystery and romance, a beach you must see to believe.

Galveston Island State Park is 'on-the-way' to nowhere but Galveston, a barrier island at sea level with only three roads into and out of the 27-mile long island.

Click the "Continue Reading" button below to read about this beautiful and magical place.

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