Comfort Inn Opelousas

... It's official. The weather black cloud is following us. It snowed here (2 inches) for only the second time in 100 years! 5. Not new News: The road crew for our pot holes has been kidnapped by the Taliban (and no ransom demand as of yet).

Another funny tidbit that might amuse a few. We headed over to the New Orleans Mission two days before Thanksgiving to start doing some volunteer work and ...

We were up early this morning so that we could spend a bit more time in New Orleans before heading out. We started out in the French Market along the waterfront, and Gabi got her first taste of bargaining with one of the many vendors. We picked up a few little things as mementos, and walked to Jackson Square. We went to the Presbytere to see the Mardi Gras museum exhibit. It was really ...

Visited the Acadian Cultural Center.Run by the US National Park.
The culture of the Cajun people are exhibited including a movie about the Cajun and life in the bayou.Saw a Cajun telling jokes exhibit.
Lunch at Vermillion Village nearby,Had Cajun dishes.Saw the recreated village of the Cajuns in the past.Saw Cajun dancing the two step.
Drove to Henderson La to join a swamp tour at McGee;s Landing.Saw ...

Rented a car from Avis,It is a Cobalt,
Head towards Lafayette,La.
Had lunch at McDonald's at Sorrento.La.
Stoppd at the Lafayette's TIC and got some brochures and hotel coupon.
Booked a room at Ramada's Inn.Rest that afternoon'
Drove to Randol;s Restaurant.It ...

Scooter and I were on the road again today, having had an absolutely wonderful time for several days with my youngest brother, Rusty, at his home in Dickinson, TX and at his incredible coffee shop, Coffee Oasis in Seacrest, TX, both of them southeast of Houston proper. I forgot to tell you all about the odd mud formations that I saw in his front yard and at the winery; I've since seen them in many other places too. Picture, if you can, a construction made up of 1/4 to ½ inch ...

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 ...

... the heart with pride to be a part of a species that has the capacity for such love. La Fayette has weekly events that are, if nothing else, just an excuse to get together and have a great time with good friends and family. The music is good, there's an abundance of spirits, and everybody is just happy to be there and alive at that moment, and it happens weekly. It was inspiring for me to attend one of these weekly ...

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.

... Evangeline country with the occasional French-language sign. Cajuns are the descendants of 17th-century French colonists who settled along the shores of Canada's Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Basin, a region they called "Acadia". Fishermen and farmers, they stayed close to the shorelines, constructing elaborate dikes to claim new crop lands. Unfortunately, Acadia lay squarely in the center of the rivalry between France ...