Ronnie Reagan

Today we stopped in Covington to see the worlds largest Ronald Reagan statue. It was 10' tall and one and a half times life size. Certainly not as tall as 67' tall Sam Houston! One of the 400 richest men in the world, and a Reagan friend, funded the statue just after the Republicans gained local control over the Democrat who had long been in power during Reagan's second term. Tonight we eat in the club house at a pork chop dinner.

Beer

In addition to the brewery tour Friday Judy went to Curves AND she played bingo and won twice.....brought home $6!! Two gallons of diesel!

Nothing like an open and free beer tap!!!! It was fancier that Smith's Hotel & Bar in Flat Rock.

Friday we checked out a local brewery with some folks from the CG. There were lots of others there also. I'm not a fancy beer conisour, they had a about 8 or 10 different beers on tap, but some were OK. The root beer was REAL good!

Exploring Abita Springs, LA

The weather has been very comfortable and we have been relaxing the last 2 days. Today after Judy went to Curves we did a little exploring of the old city. There's an 1884 pavilion and fountain downtown by the rotary. Still, LOTS of traffic. We found out that after Katrina, Abita Springs took in lots evacuees and many found jobs and decided to stay here rather than return to New Orleans, instant population explosion.

We also explored the UCM Museum. I can not begin to describe this wacky collection of junk and off the wall stuff. The pictures will only start to suggest how strange this place is. This is my kind of art museum!

Abita Springs, LA

Today we drove to southeast Louisiana. Still saw fair amount of leftover hurricane damage. We arrived about 1pm and this is a beautiful CG! When we drove in the gate gave us all the CG info and the map to our site, very impressive, no checking in, didn't even gey out of the truck. This is the way it should be! We are in the tall pines that smell great. Big site in a clean well organized CG. AND it's ROD so it's free! The area reminds us of New England, narrow twisty roads, trees close beside the road, homes and business tucked into the trees, a roatary and LOTS of traffic for a small, what we thought, out of the way place.

We went out for lunch/dinner at a local resturant. Food was good and it was happy hour, ahhh.

Spent the $$ we saved on CG fees.

Kinder, LA

Today we left Texas headed east on the back roads. We saw many many homes with blue tarps on their roofs. Some were mobile homes and some were expensive new homes. Lots of trees on the ground and burning brush. We spent the night at the Coushatta Indian Casino's RV Park. We were here in January and liked it so we returned for a one night stand. Diesel was $2.90, the last time we paid less was 10/3/07 in MO, over a year ago! Goody goody. On top of that Judy won $10 on the slots!