When we left Topeka that evening we were south of Topeka and they were burning some fields .... spring burning in this part of the state. I am going to try to post pictures as I go so you can travel along with us but it may not work!
We met our friends Larry/Sherry DeWitt at Yates Center,Kansas for the evening at the small town park. So we left that next morning at 7:30 for our trip south. We drove to Kilgore, Texas that day and found Shallow Creek RV Park. A very nice park with full concrete pads. It was a nice place. We left and found a Mexican restaurant for dinner.
The next morning we left early and drove onto Marksville, Louisiana. We stayed at the Paragon Casino. It was a huge casino and they had a beautiful RV park behind it. Many Newmars were already there. Tuesday evening we drove around and found a place for dinner. Wednesday am we drove to Avery Island, La. to visit the Tabasco factory and the Acadia Museum. The Tabasco factory is the only one in the world. It was a very interesting place and we learned alot about how Tabasco is made.
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The big vats is where they place the peppers, vinegar and put salt on top of the vats. The salt hardens and when the peppers and vinegar ferments it comes to the top through the salt. It takes about 3 years for it to ferment. The peppers are from South America.
Next we drove downtown to the Acadia Museum. It was very interesting as I thought all Louisianian's were Cajun... no....many are from an Island in Maine.... (Acadia National Park..ring a bell?) They migrated to Louisiana.
We got back and had a prerally dinner...
The Louisiana State Rally is very well known in the Newmar group for the fun time and food they have.. pure Cajun food! One evening our hosts prepared "Crayfish dinner"...... using a huge stainless steel vat they cooked 20 burlap bags of crayfish....aka....crawdads. I had never had these before and Bill said it was a long time ago when he had some. They are work to get the small amount of meat out. Crawdads are grown farm raised in rice beds. Farmers use the rice beds one year and the next year they may raise crawdads. We saw lots of rice beds/ crawdad beds along the fields road side. Along with the crawdads, we had new potatoes, corn on the cob, mushrooms. Not sure if I would like a steady diet of crawdads... rather have shrimp!
We also had a Jambayla night... it was very good although a little spicey for my taste. Bill loved it! We also had breakfasts and 2 meals at the Casino which were very good.
Sunday arrived quickly and we loaded up and left mid morning to drive 70 miles to Vidalia, Louisiana to our next camping rally.
Until next time!
BJ
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