Loooooosiana

We are now is a small town called Loranger, Louisiana - about 30 miles north of Baton Rouge and when we arrived it was a balmy 76 and crickets singing in the fields about 2 hours ago. This is a horse campground where kids come to adopt a horse for a week and learn how to care for one and also the campground hosts many rodeos, one of which will be New Years' Day - but we'll move before that. There are no horses now but you can see the barns and stalls and such, plus a good size arena when there is a rodeo. There are about a dozen full-timers here, and some just passing through. All in all - for $16.30 a night - we love it. And very very quiet. When we talked to the manager, she and her husband bought property 6 years ago right near here - right before Katrina. Price per acre was $6000 and right after Katrina she said that prices were $15000 per acre - everyone getting away from New Orleans. She also said the worst of Katrina was some downed trees here. But. 2 years ago they had 9 inches of snow in one day and said there was more damage from that than Katrina!

Seems lately I have been chosing campgrounds near railroad tracks, thank goodness not this one. To get you caught up to here - we left Vermilion to Walton Kentucky - 13 degrees. On to Cornersville Tennesse where it was 32. Monday and Tuesday we were in Meridian Mississippi and when we left there this morning it was 64. So - 76 and sunny and about 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico - great. We will sit here until next Wednesday and move on to Texas - probably Beaumont or Port Arthur, beginning to move down the Gulf Coast south of Houston. There is some sight-seeing things we can do here and we plan to just warm up and enjoy not wearing coats or jackets. I am even barefoot and Dave is outside in shirt sleeves. Life is good.