Mar 18, 2013 - Fulltimer's Post Rally

Said our goodbye's at the Retiree Rally and now we will be heading to the Poche's Fish-n-Camp RV Resort where we will join the Fulltimers for thier post rally. Everyone had a nice time, we took a few side trips. One of the best things is this group provides lots of home cooked meals. Debbie loves that part. This was our first time camping with them. We usually camp with YARS (Young Active Retirees), but wanted to have a change and it was a good one. Thanks Dave for all your cooking. Beginning Mileage: 23,451.3 Ending Mileage: 23,479.5 Total...

Mar 6, 2013 - Breaux Bridge, LA

3/6/13, Wednesday It was a nice drive today. We headed over to Galveston Bay and followed the water heading toward Lafayette, Louisiana. Robin was pretty tired so slept about half of the trip. We passed through Baytown, TX which was a neat seaside town with lots of seafood restaurants. (We did not stop.) We made it into Louisiana. What a difference! I think they have ALL the water and greenery that Texas does not have. Another thing we noticed were crawfish traps everywhere. It seems like every field that had a few inches of water, had...

Feb 28, 2013 - Heat, Natural Beauty and Crawfish

Today began with a trip to Avery Island and a tour of the Tabasco factory. The most hot stuff I've ever seen in one place. We have small samples of all their sauces which will be more than enough to last Linda into eternity. I even purchased some ice cream mix with Tabasco flavoring. That's a sure way for me to get all of the ice cream. Then we toured the 200 acre jungle garden the family that owns Tabasco has built as a sanctuary for White Egrets and developed into a beautiful botanical garden. Lunch in the trailer and some laundry chores...

Feb 27, 2013 - Boudin Trail and Swamp Tour

Another fantastic day! We began our day on the Boudin Trail (yes they call it that) but we only made two stops before we were off touring the back roads and seeing how real Cajuns live. Lunch was Red Boudin and then it was time for our swamp tour with Shawn who owns, with his father, Cajun Country Swamp Tours. He is a fantastic naturalist with degrees in zoology and botany. His knowledge of the swamp and the creatures and plants that inhabit it was fantastic. He was not only informative but friendly with a touch of Cajun humor. We saw...

Jan 18, 2013 - Cajun Country

We explored Cajun Country today! It was a great tour around the area. We drove the back roads and saw air boats, raised tomb cemeteries, storm damage and more spots to eat crawfish than you can shake a stick at. Had lunch at Gator Cove. Mike and I ordered Po-Boys, which are sandwiches made with french bread. Mine was fried crawfish and Mike ordered fried catfish. The waitress brought us over a dish of boiled crawfish to sample. She showed us how to eat it - kinda like lobster but a WHOLE lot smaller ;-) Back at camp, it was Friday...

Jan 17, 2013 - Louisiana!

We are in Cajun Country! Traveled through 4 states today, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Phew! Tough driving for Mike. Strong winds most of the day which buffeted the Trek. They finally calmed down this afternoon. We are staying at Cajun Palms RV Resort in Henderson Louisiana. I found this park on Google and it is only 1/2 a mile off the highway. We had just planned a quick overnight but they have a special, buy a night and stay a night for free. So, we will stay 2 night at this gorgeous resort-type park for the price of...

Aug 6, 2012 - R&R

Breaux Bridge, LA Poche’s Fish-N-Camp Some days we just take a rest and relax and that’s what we did today. The most activity for the day was Ron went to Wal-Mart to get a new sewer hose since ours decided to spring a small leak today. Exciting, right? Tomorrow we will leave this pretty little paradise and travel to Texas. The manager of the park told us that this upcoming weekend they have one group of 55 coaches coming in. That should be a riot! But we won’t be here to see it…we’ll be on another adventure somewhere else!

Aug 5, 2012 - More driving around

Breaux Bridge, LA Poche’s Fish-N-Camp This morning we watched everybody pack up their chairs, mats, tables, bicycles, golf carts, fishing poles, grills, fans, outdoor canopies, and other miscellaneous gear, then hitch up their trailers and pull out. We watched the convoy of trailers leaving and they were all gone by noon today. It’s back to a quiet, peaceful park again. Louisiana has never been known for smooth roads and we have some concern about the conditions between here and Texas. We decided to take a ride over to an old highway (190)...

Aug 4, 2012 - Driving around

Breaux Bridge, LA Poche’s Fish-N-Camp We had no specific plans today except to find a place to eat and see something new. That’s usually our plan every day!! Breaux Bridge is a small town with only a few blocks of downtown business establishments, mostly antique shops, what not shops, and a few eateries. The only place that looked open was Café des Amis so we went in and were seated right away. What we did not realize was this place is the happening place to be for Saturday breakfast before 11am. We were there around 12:30p and the band was...

Aug 3, 2012 - Vermilionville

Breaux Bridge, LA Poche’s Fish-N-Camp We drove to Lafayette, about 15 miles from the RV park, to The Vermilionville Living History Museum and Folklife Park. The park is a picturesque representation of a village from a time period of 1765 to 1890 depicting the life of the Cajun/Creole people. The park has a small restaurant, La Cuisine de Maman, with Cajun and Creole food. On Friday and Saturday they have a small buffet or the option to order from the menu. We selected the buffet. I took a picture of the food but it’s difficult to tell...

Aug 2, 2012 - Tabasco

Breaux Bridge, LA Poche’s Fish-N-Camp We drove to Avery Island, about 35 miles from the RV park, where the Tabasco factory is located. The scenery on the way to the Tabasco factory was not very pretty. We went through an area of mainly light industrial and a few sugar cane fields. Once we paid the $1.00 toll at the tiny shack at the entrance of the island, the scenery changed to lush and green with many large trees. On a side note, Avery Island is a huge salt dome and home of one of the world’s largest salt mines. We parked in the small...

Aug 1, 2012 - Quiet day

Breaux Bridge, LA Poche’s Fish-N-Camp Today was a restful and relaxing day. We stayed home all day. It was so hot we spent most of the day inside. I worked on genealogy research and Ron spent some time with military research. Since we are in Louisiana and I had traced some family to Louisiana, I worked on researching that line of people. I discovered two separate family lines, both great grand uncles - one in Concordia parish, a farmer, and one in Orleans parish, a steamboat pilot. The one in Concordia died in 1920 and his wife and children...