Editor’s note: East Carroll Banner has a new feature – a travelogue, written by Trey Phillips, who grew up in Lake Providence. Find all his stories here.
Phillips grew up in Lake Providence and has worked as a lawyer for 33 years in solo private practice and in public service roles.
His public service includes a stint as Assistant District Attorney, Sixth Judicial District (East Carroll, Madison and Tensas Parishes), from 1993 through 2001. Additionally, Phillips served as First Assistant Attorney General, State of Louisiana, from 2009 through 2016.
This travelogue will probably not be a typical accounting of taking a cruise or joining a guided travel tour, although there’s nothing wrong with that kind of travel. Phillips likes to be a bit unconventional.
He says he probably caught the travel bug while frequently setting out on adventures in the family Jeep and pickup trucks crossing Thrill Hill into Bunch’s Bend, and the surrounding countryside, beginning at age 13. He also recalls a celebratory excursion up to Greenville, Mississippi, on the day he received his driver’s license, from Mr. Bagbey, at age 15. Other than one embarrassing wrong-way turn into a one-way lane, near the Greenville Mall, all went well that day.
A few months after the Greenville trip, Phillips ventured out West to visit family in Dallas, Texas, after first tackling the “insane” freeway system on the East side of Dallas.
Now he’s an older traveler, but it hasn’t necessarily slowed him down. We hope these stories will be filled with observations, tips, history, and humor. East Carroll Banner will be sharing these stories online, too, along with more pictures. Got questions? Email us at news@eastcarrollbanner.com and we’ll pass them along for Phillips to answer.
