Comfort Inn Opelousas

... a town with a taxi that runs on weekends or at least get off your ass and learn to ride the bike. 2. Small town hospitality and caring are alive and well. The motel handy man took me to the hospital and his wife picked me up. 3. Don't count on having someones shoulder to cry on when your lonely and scared (especially when they don't call back). Put your big girl panties on, move on and deal with it ...

... and it was amazing to see the elaborate costumes, jewelry and masks. Outside we watched a few street musicians, but as the girls were pretty tired from our busy days, we decided to hit the road.

This afternoon they spent hours relaxing in the pool in our Cajun/Creole country hotel. Tonight we're off to an authentic Cajun restaurant. We'll see how adventurous they are!

... cypress trees and an alligator in the Achafalaya Basin.
Talk to the kids by cell phone.
Drove to Breaux Bridge La and had dinner at Mulate's.It is a famous Cajun restaurant.At the entrance it has a lot of world famous celebrities who visited the place,
Had combination the fried seafood platter-cat fish,frog,shrimps,oyster.
Heard the band sing Jambalaya.
Drove back to the hotel in Lafayette.

... restaurant with a dance floor. Lots of Cajun dancing and music.It has bench seats for the dancers in the dance floor so they do not have to go to their tables.
The band has an accordion,and fiddle.
Ate boiled crawfish,crawfish etouffee and banana pudding,.Food is good.

... all of them sat way back from the road, and had neatly mowed, very green grass all around them. There were a few pastures with cows, almost no horses, a few sheep and goats. About 7 pm. I finally reached Opelousas, and found a restaurant where I could experience crawfish (crawdads) etouffe; it's stewed small crayfish tails in a thick spicy sauce served over white steamed rice, and it's very rich and very good, slightly spicy hot. The crayfish remind me of baby shrimp ...

Je quitte l'hostel à 8heures et retourne chez Ihop mais pour des pancakes aux bananes cette fois. Je rends la voiture à l'aéroport: Je me suis trompé dans les dates et aurais du la rendre la veille! M'enfin! J'enregistre mes bagages et attends l'avion. Mais une annonce nous prévient du retard dû aux orages du coté de Dallas. Au bureau, on me conseil d'attendre pour aller à Dallas comme pr ...

... rendevous with Jerie on this trip. The first thing to notice is that everybody knows everybody else, literally. There wasn't a minute that people weren't embracing and saying how good it was to see each other, when in reality it probably hadn't been but a few days since they last met. It was really important for these people to be around each other though. To see them dancing to the good music around the pavilion ...

fatigué de la veille et toute cette danse, je me suis levé assez tard. Je me repose et planifie les jours suivant: je décide de partir demain mais réservé ma nuit de vendredi. Vers 1 heure, je retourne au lac Martin. Toujours de nombreux oiseaux et quelques alligators. Je rencontre de gens qui me disent qu'ils vont faire un tour sur le lac en bateau à 2h. Je voulais le faire donc je me dépêche ...

... Le batiment surplombe le lac, assombris par le ciel noir. Geno Delafose et son groupe joue pendant plus de 4 heures, non stop. On me dit que en temps normal (pas de tempete) il y a encore plus de monde!. Le temps passe vite quand on danse. Ensuite, je suis les conseils qu'on me donne alors que je suis sur le depart: aller à Wranglers, N. University à Lafayette. C'est un club- un boite Zydeco. Le groupe qui joue est bien rock et zydeco, jusqu'à minuit.

... days. Our route for today was relatively flat, with soft rollers during the first 20-miles. We rode past farms with rice silos, large fields of rice, crawfish ponds, and horse farms. The crawfish ponds were full of egrets, loons, and other birds. Happily, we encountered far fewer dogs than anticipated today. The weather was hot and sultry, and we encountered strong winds during the last 20 miles. Today we entered Cajun Country ... the ...