Rendez-vous Des Cajuns

We spend 5 nights towards the end of our trip at the Red Shoes Campground at Coushatta Casino.  It turns into a sit-by-the-pool vacation, we’re waiting out some severe weather that’s kicking up north of us.  And it gives us the opportunity to go to see a Saturday night performance – Rendez-Vous  Des Cajuns – [...]

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Acadian Village-LARC

A place that surprises us in so may ways.  We thought Acadian Village was just another tourist attraction, with the additional advantage of being able to stay, with our little RV, hooked to power on “the grounds”.  When we pull into where we think we’re supposed to park,  we notice quite a few buildings near [...]

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Avery Island – Tabasco, Alligators and Egrets

This is the island Tabasco built.  It’s not really an island, it’s a salt dome.  The same salt that played an important part in the Civil War, for curing food that could go bad, and in the recipe for Tabasco sauce, made from the HOT peppers that grow here.  You can tour the factory and burn/please [...]

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Allons a Lafayette, Cajun Country, Louisiana

Lafeyette is at the heart of Acadiana and we’re here for the Acadian village museums, the food and the music.  We start with Vermillionville, a Cajun/Creole Heritage and Folklife  Park (Vermillionville is the original name of what is now modern-day Lafayette).  True to form, we start our visit with the on-site restaurant, La Cuisine de [...]

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Paragon Casino, Marksville, LA

Is it starting to look like we may need a visit to Gambler’s Anonymous?  Ha – no worries.  We don’t play enough to get comped for a cup of coffee, but we’re finding that casino RV parks are a great alternative to mediocre private ones in areas where there isn’t something more scenic around.  They’re [...]

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St. Francisville, LA – Plantations and Ghosts

We spend two days in the area and learn that John Audobon spent four months across the street from our campground at Oakley Plantation, tutoring the young daughter of the owners.  For $60/month plus room and board he taught for half of the day, leaving the other half free for him to roam the woods [...]

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Harrah’s and Paula Deen, Tunica Mississippi

This place looks like a bit of Disney on the outside and tastes like a little bit of heaven on the inside.   We are not buffet people.  But Paula Dean has opened a restaurant here, and it’s buffet, so we’re on.  We’re not disappointed – so many different and delicious regional dishes to sample. [...]

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Beginning of the Spring trip to Louisiana – April Fools

April 1, 2011.  As we ‘re about to pull out of the driveway, fully loaded, provisioned and raring to go, Taylor (sweet old gentleman cat) has another medical emergency.  We’re already a month behind schedule on this southern trip because of his recent surgery and complications, so we worry that this might be the end [...]

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Fredericksburg

(The last post from the last trip -onto 2011!) After visiting the Fredericksburg Visitor Center, watching the film, walking along the stone wall, the sunken road and visiting the cemetery on the hill, where unknown soldiers are buried in graves, with numbers indicating how many are resting in the same grave together, the # 5 [...]

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Bilocation/ or how the Fall 2010 trip ended

If anybody’s reading this blog, knowing that we’re in Louisiana – while posts are appearing about Virginia – it’s just me trying to catch up with the end of the last trip (Fall 2010) so that I can start writing about the trip we’re on (Spring 2011).  I’ve got a few notes and a couple [...]

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