Posted by JerryS on August 12, 2012 at 13:06:13 from (98.80.108.237):
In Reply to: Louisiana travels... posted by TonyIN on August 12, 2012 at 09:00:40:
Tony, it kinda depends on what you’re interested in. If you’re interested in agriculture you’re in luck. Following the Mississippi south from Memphis you’ll see some prime agriculture in east Arkansas and Louisiana all the way to New Orleans. You might see some cotton being picked and you might even catch the beginning of the sugar cane harvest. You won’t have an interstate to drive down, so just take the major US routes. Just remember that practically every small town in Louisiana is a speed trap.
If you like history, there’s Poverty Point in NE Louisiana; it’s an excavated/restored pre-historic Indian village ----huge, and very important archeologically. Then there’s Vicksburg battle park (the gunboat Cairo is especially interesting) and Fort Hudson. Of course New Orleans is a destination of its own, and if you haven’t been to the French Quarter you should try to go. New Orleans is about 90 miles from Baton Rouge, I think.
I used to spend a lot of time in Baton Rouge years ago when working with the Legislature. I found very little of interest there. Maybe John can chime in with some ideas. Two things you won’t find in Baton Rouge----the Honey Badger, or a 2011 BCS trophy.
If you want to sample the true Cajun culture you’ll have to go west and south of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. (New Orleans is lots of things, but it’s not Cajun.) Lafayette is the “Cajun Capital”, and it has an interesting “Cajun Village” tourist site. But to really sample the essence of Cajun land----and what most people envision as Louisiana----you have to go south of Lafayette into the small towns like St. Martinville and Abbeville. It’s really worth it to go on south to New Iberia (beautiful town) and Houma and Thibodaux, where you see the cypress swamps and marshes and fishing villages. You’ll need a day trip for all this, but it’s worth it.
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