Harris took an early morning picture of our campsite in Louisiana before we left.
We drove just a few miles and stopped in Natchitoches, which is the oldest continuously occupied city in the Louisiana Purchase. We had to look up the dates, and yes, it’s a few years older than New Orleans! It is a lot smaller than New Orleans, but has some of the same architectural details. There is a mix of Indian, Spanish, French, and American cultures here, as various groups came in and pushed others out.
The little park around the visitor’s center is beautiful.
We loved seeing these big live oak trees. They look like they’d be so much fun to climb!
Roque House was built in 1796.
A picture of the main tourist street.
Neat benches on the street with names built in...perhaps the donor's name?
Prud’homme-Rouquier House, built sometime in the 1790. These names are from the founding families.
The house that was used in the movie ‘Steel Magnolias’.
That's it for pictures...after this we just drove and drove, again on the back highways and byways...lots of green fields and trees. We were passed by many logging trucks, hauling long skinny logs...not much by PNW standards!
We ended up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Okatoma Resort and RV Park. Because we were coming in from backroads and not the freeways, our little Tom-tom led us through the smallest farm roads we've been on yet. But we made it! (and the wifi was sketchy, so we had to post it today.)
Total miles: 300
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