TIME LINE
Feb. 27
9:00 am - Left home, not totally sure where we're going.
12:45 pm - Stopped at Buc-ee's in Madisonville. Got BBQ sandwiches. (the bathrooms really are amazing!)
Feb. 28
Tim played golf.
March 1
9:00 a.m - Back on the road
11:30 a.m. - Burger King in Jennings, LA
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| Sign at Hideaway Ponds RV Park |
March 2 -
11:30 Ate lunch at La Palma Mexican Restaurant in Thibodaux. Not bad, but not Tex-Mex.
Link to Laurel Valley Facebook Page
1:30 Laurel Valley Village Store and Museum, at Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, near Thibodaux. This plantation is actually still in business, growing sugar.
The old slave quarters are still standing, (barely), but it looks like a good wind would blow them over. When anyone talks about "the good old days", I just cringe. I always think of the atrocities of slave labor, child labor, and very few rights for women.
2:30 Wal-Mart. Of course.
March 3
11:40 Lunch at Rita Mae's Cajun Kitchen in Morgan City.
1:00 Wal-Mart. Again.
March 4
Rained.
March 5
Tim played golf.
March 6
5:30 p.m. Supper at Burger King, in Bayou Cane. Yes, we do eat like teenagers.
6:00 p.m. Wal-Mart. Because it was there.
12:00 Lunch at Good Doggy (gourmet hot dogs) in Bayou Cane. Only the best junk food for me and my Cowboy, lol!
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| Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum |
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| Bronze statue honoring the Houma Indians, the local Native American tribe that the town is named for. Houma means "red" in Choctaw. |
1:00 Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum - displays tell about the industries, traditions and personal stories that give this are it's unique culture.
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| Terrebonne Folklife Culture Center |
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| A decoy carved by one of the students at the Culture Center. |
Like in other coastal areas, graves here are covered in cement to keep them from floating away during hurricanes and floods.
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| Note the cathedral steeple in the background. |
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| Some grave sites are two deep. There were several that were three deep. |
The front of the Cathedral School. This original school was opened in 1870. It was moved to this location in 1951.
1:50 St. Frances de Sales Cemetery, Cathedral & School
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| Southdown Plantation |
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| Beautiful Oak Trees on the grounds. |
Sugar Cane Press and Boiling Pot.
2:15 Southdown Plantation, Houmas
The best thing about every place we've been on this trip has been the people we have met. In Thibodaux we were invited to the Fireman's Festival. At the Waterlife Museum, we didn't do the (hour long) tour because my cranky joints won't let me stand for that long, but the lady at the front desk told us all about the area. At the Culture Center, we had a great conversation with a lady who told us about other things to see in Houma.
But my favorite by far was the gentlemen at Southdown Plantation. Again, we did not take the tour because of my achy joints, so I was just walking around outside the house taking pictures while Tim hunted for a geocache a few feet away. When the caretaker saw us, he stopped mowing and told me all about the house and the history of the place. He and his wife actually live in the house (in an apartment on the top floor) rent free, in exchange for taking care of the place. He showed me several pictures of the inside, and told me that his grandmother once lived on the grounds and helped her grandmother with the cooking for the family that lived there. He was as proud of that house as if it was his own. He really loves taking care of it.
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| When we left the plantation, we just started driving south to see how far we could go. So much muddy water! Lakes, bayous, rivers, and swamps. Everywhere. We could have gone farther, but we decided we'd seen enough and took a different route back to Houma. |
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| We saw a lot of shrimp boats on this drive. |
3:00 Drove south of Dulac on Hwy. 57, just to see more of the southern Louisiana landscape.
March 8
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| This was just down the street from our RV park. |
8:45 Left Hideaway Ponds.
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| Azaleas at the Mississippi Welcome Center |
9:45 Mississippi Welcome Center
11:30 Denny's in Gulfport, MS
2:00 Styx River RV Resort. We plan to be here for one week, then go to Abita Springs, LA.
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