Category Archives: Louisiana

So once Jerry and Janice showed up in Shreveport  it started raining.  The weather wasn’t something we would really have ordered if we had a choice.  It rained and it rained and then we had a little clearing before it rained again.  It’s kind of...

It was definitely a whirlwind tour, having allocated a single day to explore New Orleans. As a stated earlier, we stayed at French Quarter RV Resort, just steps from the French Quarter. Yes, it is VERY pricie, but it's all about location, baby! It...

It's the tradition in a few towns along the Mississippi, like Lutcher and Gramercy to build extravagant wooden pyres to be lighted on Christmas Eve to guide Papa Noel through the night. (Just so you know - down here in the bayou his sleigh is pulled by alligators or maybe egre...

 We have left the 'Big Easy' after a 10 day visit and are headed south and the Gulf, for warmer weather, some kayaking and maybe just sitting down on the sand. This post will be more photo, less history....New Orleans, or as a local ~ Naw-lins is better known than ma...

Terminology is an issue here. We got our first lesson at the Evangeline - Longfellow Historical Site State Park in St. Martinville, LA.  Some of the terms that get bandied around here to describe the culture, the people and the geography can get c...

We're spending this month at Cajun Palms RV Resort in Henderson, near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, "Crawfish Capitol of the World." It' a very large RV park, with long, wide, level, concrete sites, many of them pull throughs. We are some of the few folks ...

We spent just a couple of days in the Baton Rouge area...don't miss the Louisiana State Museum...it's both informative and beautiful. It's also located very close to the state capitol buildings and downtown BR. The first floor is in a historical layout, covering the ...

Like every other tourist in New Orleans, we started our day off in line at Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter.  It took about 20 minutes for us to get seated in the big tent-like structure that covers the tiny tables crowded with ecstatic consume...

Why have we never heard of Natchitoches, LA?....(pronounced nack-a-tish) Are we the only people in America who didn't know this gem was here. Known for the Christmas Festival of Lights - which we stumbled upon was just beginning to come to life, the city park and river-wa...