typical Saturday at home, shopping and a movie - reassuringly comfortable.
We even finished our San Antonio trip with dinner in McDonald’s, a real taste
of home!
Day six of our cross-country sprint, also day six of 2004, found us back on the
road, covering our last leg to the Deep South. Again we only made a few
stops, Denny's brunch plus restroom and petrol breaks as we headed from
Texas to Louisiana. A book on tape and countless rounds of 20 questions
kept us occupied and sane - ish. As we neared our destination the scenery
also provided more distraction. Empty plains were replaced with lush greenery
as we entered Bayou country.
We arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the early evening and booked
into a KOA site again. We were (fortunately?) just in time to watch an
orientation video provided by the camp owners, and were locked away in a
dark room with another couple. The video had a 'home movie' feel and
managed to be both funny and disturbing at the same time. Funny in its
amateurishness, disturbing in its content.
The majority of the film was about how to cook and eat crawfish - a
local staple. It featured people cooking the oversized prawns alive and eating
them, head first. Stylish, and flashbacks to the poor blighter we had seen in
San Antonio! It also plugged the KOA - encouraging guests to book in - and
the local basketball team, with 'its own special brand of playing'? Finally the
video invited us to try alligator meat advertising its 'surprisingly not bad taste
and good consistency'! Well, we were now sold on the area.
Bravely, and a little foolishly, we followed the movie with a trip out to