6-17-07

Whoop-te-doo,
I'm finally getting this thing going. Started the trip on Thursday, the14th. I didn't want to go through Houston, I hate that place, so I took 290 to Brenham, went to the creameryterium, bought a t-shirt, and headed on out hwy 105. It was between Kountze...MYYY DADDY...and De Quincy, La. that I figured these side roads are nice, and everything, but gas and time are not well spent, so I'm back on the interstate for a ways.
I stayed in Lafayette for a couple of nights, chowed down on lots of gumbo, skrimps, crawdaddies, etc. Took a drive through the heart of the swamps along the Gulf from Pecan Island to Holly Beach. Remember the boondoggle from a few years back Deano, when we all went down so Buffalo could leave that application for work at the door of that job shack somewhere along the way. I can't remember for the life of me, what jailhouse, at which town we ended up waiting for Buddy to get out of incarceration from. Tweak my memory later. Anyway, it was along that road where I saw this 7ft. plus of Cajun road kill. AAIIIIIYEEEEEE! I imagine that woke somebody right up when they ran over that. After getting a few pictures of the swamps, I headed back to New Iberia, then cut down south to see Avery Island. It's a nice slow drive through the gardens, the gazebo on that island has a statue of Buddha in it, but it's locked up so I couldn't get to it. After tasting some samples of hot sauce in their gift shop, it was back to Lafayette, and tripping on down the road. I ended up in Pensacola, where the hotel wireless wouldn't talk to my computer, so I just lazed around there for a couple of days. I'm slowly going toward the Keys. I forgot I'd taken those pictures on the ferry at Cameron. Anybody remember ever seeing a fire axe in glass like that? I guess I'm limited to 5 pictures per post so I'll make another post or two for the rest of the pictures. I'll talk later.