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Kristy Christiansen
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Kristy Christiansen

Kristy Christiansen has worked for more than 20 years as a freelance journalist and public relations specialist in New Orleans and Washington, DC. Along with her husband and three children, they spend every free moment exploring Louisiana and the rest of the country. You can follow their Louisiana travels at https://www.facebook.com/beyondthebayous.

A heron stands on the beach at Dauphin Island with the sun setting on the water

Off-Season on the Gulf

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A great blue heron on the beach of Dauphin Island. All photos by Paul Christiansen for Country Roads Magazine Finding solitude, story, and sea air on Dauphin Island Clinging to the water’s edge, the…

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The outside of Colonial Fort Conde

Full Steam to Mobile

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All eyes were on Mobile, Alabama, last March when the SS United States , with its dual smokestacks in faded red and white, slid into Mobile Bay with the help of a few tugboats. As the ocean liner…

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