We're back from our vacation in Louisiana! We had a great time. I took a lot of
pictures, which are on my Facebook page, and I will put a few of them on my blog
as I post about our trip. I won't be able to post about it all in one sitting,
though, so I'll just start from the beginning.
We left a week ago from
yesterday to go visit our friends from CBC. We left about 4:30am, while it was
still very dark, and went west into Illinois, and then south. The road caught
parts of Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Of course we lived in Missouri for
five years, but this was the first time we'd been through this particular part
and the first time we'd ever seen cotton fields. Many of them were being
harvested, and there were bits of cotton lying all over the road and in people's
yards and blowing across parking lots. We pulled over to the edge and picked up
some cotton off the side of the road.
We had brought our laptop with us
and our PC card so we could connect to the interned in the van. Erick needed to
find a post office to mail in his ordination application before the end of the
week, so we were able to look it up on Google maps and find the post office in a
small town in Missouri. We found many uses for having the interned on a trip,
such as finding out what towns coming up had what places to eat. I was able to
keep up on forums almost the whole week, too.
Arkansas was very flat in
the part we travelled through. The fields all had man-made ditches dug next to
each one for irrigation. Every field had hoses or irrigation systems--they must
not get much rain there or something.
Mississippi was very beautiful,
with a lot of pine trees. The trees were very tall and skinny, with needles way
at the top. I'm pretty sure many of them are grown for their timber. They
reminded me of a forest of 2X4's. Other than that we didn't see any crops in
Mississippi, although we saw a few cows. I don't know if they grow anything else
besides timber.
We finally got into Louisiana, and went across this long
bridge built right over the swamp. I'd always wondered why the maps of Louisiana
looked so cut up and funny at the edge, like there was no definite border. It
didn't look like there was any solid land anywhere. There were houses built
right down into the water on stilts. The sun was just setting, and it was hard
to see the trees because of the brightness of the sun but they looked really
strange to me--like they had feathers. When I finally got to see them a little
better I thought they were molding, or that someone hadn't brushed the cobwebs
off in a long time. Between the gray, feathery trees was yellow flowers, the
with the sun behind them they had a weird, other-worldly look to them. I found
out later that what I was seeing was Spanish Moss. I'd heard of it, but I'd
never realized what it looked like. I always though it looked like normal,
green, grow-up-the-side-of-the-tree moss.
It was dark by the time we
finally arrived in Thibodaux. It's pronounced "Tib-a-dough."
I will
write more about our trip later.
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