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After a week on Padre Island we headed north, hugging the coastline up to Matagorda Beach, which supposedly had a beach where bums like us could park for free. </p> +<p>It did turn out to have just that, but it would have meant driving out on sand that was way too soft for the bus. We ended up at a rather pricey RV park for the night. Fortunately it was right by the beach, so we at least had a nice sunny afternoon playing on the sand.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>A couple people have asked how we find the places we go, and, after giving this some thought I think I finally have an answer. There are three ways we find stuff. The best is when Corrinne finds something. I don’t know how she does it, but she’ll sit there with her phone for a while researching things while we drive (I can only recount what I observed before we had the dingy) and next thing I know we’re at some really great, cheap campground. That’s about 40 percent of where we stay.</p> +<p>Another 20-30 percent of what we find is word of mouth. We meet someone, they say, oh you have to go to ______. So we do. The rest of what we find is pretty mundane, we look for green spots on maps, and sometimes we use freecampsites.net, wikicamp, guidebooks, etc. That’s about it.</p> +<p>Matagorda Beach was a green spot I had noticed halfway between Padre Island and Holly Beach, LA. </p> +<p>While we were there I met a couple on a beach who told me about a good county park up on Galveston Island. Under normal circumstances that would probably have become out next stop, but the weather forecast for Galveston was rain and wind for several days so we pressed on, up into Louisiana, to a place called Holly Beach.</p> +<p>The drive took us through Houston, which, like most cities, was largely forgettable except for one thing, the massive, ugly and rather ominous looking oil refineries and storage tanks the litter the coast for what feels like forever, but is probably only 20 miles or so. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide-med.jpg" alt="refineries, houston, tx photographed by Ken Lund, Flickr" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Photograph by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16075485289/in/photolist-qPTdqx-c42qn-BByaSd-8h5Xy8-9HfknG-81eodb-bF4356-8h9cnd-8h9cmG-9qHyzk-bF48RK-bs9bs7-bF455B-qux4Ht">Ken Lund, Flickr</a>"> + </a> +<figcaption>Photograph by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16075485289/in/photolist-qPTdqx-c42qn-BByaSd-8h5Xy8-9HfknG-81eodb-bF4356-8h9cnd-8h9cmG-9qHyzk-bF48RK-bs9bs7-bF455B-qux4Ht">Ken Lund, Flickr</a> | image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16075485289/in/photolist-qPTdqx-c42qn-BByaSd-8h5Xy8-9HfknG-81eodb-bF4356-8h9cnd-8h9cmG-9qHyzk-bF48RK-bs9bs7-bF455B-qux4Ht" itemprop="author">Ken Lund, Flickr</a></figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Sometimes it gives me great pause to see what we humans have done to our world. I hate that we need oil to do this. I hate that without all that ugliness this would not be possible. I have all kinds of stats about how little energy we use, how 65 gallons of water can last us a week, but in the end, we feed those refineries as much as anyone. We need a boat.</p> +<p>I was thinking about energy, oil and the end of abundant cheap oil all the way to Holly Beach. I don’t know why I wanted to go to Holly Beach. I’d first read about it in Peter Jenkins book, <cite>Along the Edge of America</cite>, which is a good read if you have any interest in the Gulf Coast. But I have no idea why Holly Beach stuck out, it doesn’t really figure in the book much at all, but for whatever reason my brain latched onto it and I wanted to go.</p> +<p>It turned out to be a sad little place. Broken down houses, a few renovated as rentals, but hardly anyone around anymore. There was free camping on the sand, but again soft sand so we just pulled to the side of the road and spent one night. The dead dolphin washed up on the beach didn’t really make me want to fish and by the time the sun went down it was cold, raining and somewhat miserable. This is why Corrinne is usually in charge of where we stay.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="One thing Holly Beach had in spades was stop signs."> + </a> +<figcaption>One thing Holly Beach had in spades was stop signs.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Of course, a cold, rainy day on the beach is still better than most days so it’s not that I’m complaining, I’m just saying, if you want to find the really good camping spots, hit my wife up for advice, not me.</p> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="field_notes"> + <h3>Field Notes</h3> + <ul> + <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/travco-mechanic">Travco Mechanic</a></li> + + <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/01/hookups">Hookups</a></li> + </ul> + </aside> + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li 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Did the Dolphin “feel” like you were standing over an animal or more like a person? Its so big and strange, and its a mammal…. Who found it?</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3023" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">February 19, 2018 at 9:53 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>To be honest it was pretty damn cold and Corrinne and kids found it and wanted me to come see it so I did, took a picture, because, I don’t know, it seemed like something to record, and that was about the end of it.</p> +<p>Reflecting on it now I think it didn’t feel much like an animal at all. Whatever life force or existence it might have had was long, long gone. 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After a week on Padre Island we headed north, hugging the coastline up to Matagorda Beach, which supposedly had a beach where bums like us could park for free.
+
+It did turn out to have just that, but it would have meant driving out on sand that was way too soft for the bus. We ended up at a rather pricey RV park for the night. Fortunately it was right by the beach, so we at least had a nice sunny afternoon playing on the sand.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach.jpg" id="image-1111" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach.jpg" id="image-1107" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach.jpg" id="image-1108" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach.jpg" id="image-1109" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach.jpg" id="image-1110" class="picwide" />
+
+A couple people have asked how we find the places we go, and, after giving this some thought I think I finally have an answer. There are three ways we find stuff. The best is when Corrinne finds something. I don't know how she does it, but she'll sit there with her phone for a while researching things while we drive (I can only recount what I observed before we had the dingy) and next thing I know we're at some really great, cheap campground. That's about 40 percent of where we stay.
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+Another 20-30 percent of what we find is word of mouth. We meet someone, they say, oh you have to go to ______. So we do. The rest of what we find is pretty mundane, we look for green spots on maps, and sometimes we use freecampsites.net, wikicamp, guidebooks, etc. That's about it.
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+Matagorda Beach was a green spot I had noticed halfway between Padre Island and Holly Beach, LA.
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+While we were there I met a couple on a beach who told me about a good county park up on Galveston Island. Under normal circumstances that would probably have become out next stop, but the weather forecast for Galveston was rain and wind for several days so we pressed on, up into Louisiana, to a place called Holly Beach.
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+The drive took us through Houston, which, like most cities, was largely forgettable except for one thing, the massive, ugly and rather ominous looking oil refineries and storage tanks the litter the coast for what feels like forever, but is probably only 20 miles or so.
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+<img src="images/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o.jpg" id="image-1117" class="picwide caption" />
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+Sometimes it gives me great pause to see what we humans have done to our world. I hate that we need oil to do this. I hate that without all that ugliness this would not be possible. I have all kinds of stats about how little energy we use, how 65 gallons of water can last us a week, but in the end, we feed those refineries as much as anyone. We need a boat.
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+I was thinking about energy, oil and the end of abundant cheap oil all the way to Holly Beach. I don't know why I wanted to go to Holly Beach. I'd first read about it in Peter Jenkins book, <cite>Along the Edge of America</cite>, which is a good read if you have any interest in the Gulf Coast. But I have no idea why Holly Beach stuck out, it doesn't really figure in the book much at all, but for whatever reason my brain latched onto it and I wanted to go.
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+It turned out to be a sad little place. Broken down houses, a few renovated as rentals, but hardly anyone around anymore. There was free camping on the sand, but again soft sand so we just pulled to the side of the road and spent one night. The dead dolphin washed up on the beach didn't really make me want to fish and by the time the sun went down it was cold, raining and somewhat miserable. This is why Corrinne is usually in charge of where we stay.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach.jpg" id="image-1113" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach.jpg" id="image-1112" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach.jpg" id="image-1115" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach.jpg" id="image-1114" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach.jpg" id="image-1116" class="picwide caption" />
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Like most of the nation, for us Mardi Gras was just another Tuesday. Once we realized that our timing would put us there though we knew we had to go, preferably out deep in the Cajun/Acadian region from which Mardi Gras originates.</p> +<p>I won’t pretend to understand Mardi Gras, or where it comes from, though at least some of what we saw apparently dates from the Middle Ages when various guilds and small secret societies would celebrate, er, something? Some say it goes back to the feast of begging, in medieval France, but a good argument can be made that it’s much older than that. Whatever its origins, it’s insular enough that if you aren’t part of the culture, I don’t think you’ll ever really understand it. That won’t stop you from enjoying it though.</p> +<p>Part of what makes it complicated is that there are so many different ways people celebrate Mardi Gras. What you see in one place often bears no resemblance to what you see in another.</p> +<p>The only thing historians of Mardi Gras seem to agree upon is that at some point Mardi Gras became intertwined with the Catholic celebration of Lent. Mardi Gras became a celebration of excess in preparation for the deprivation of Lent. I think. Beads, heavy drinking and most of the other things we outsiders associate with Mardi Gras are apparently quite recent though, starting some time in the late 1940s, or ‘50s, or ‘60s, depending on who you ask.</p> +<p>The basis of most celebrations these days are the parades, huge floats full of people decorated with beads marching through towns, throwing out candy, toys and beads to those of us who gather to watch. We got beads, so many beads.</p> +<p>We attended two Mardi Gras celebrations, the first was a children’s parade in Lafayette. It wasn’t the best day for a parade, rain poured down just as it was about to get underway, but that didn’t stop anyone, including us.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_122604.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_122604_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_122604.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_123913.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_123913_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_123913.jpg" 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alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_124609.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125322.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_125322_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125322.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125119.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_125119_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125119.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125649.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_125649_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125649.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125431_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125431_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125431_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We managed to make it back to the campground in time for the golf cart parade. Like I said, Mardi Gras is all about the parades, even when they’re small.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="palmetto island mardi gras photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras palmetto island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bus decorated for mardi gras photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras palmetto island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Before there were beads there was the Courir de Mardi Gras, which is Cajun French for “Fat Tuesday Run”. As with so many things in America over the last century, “run” morphed into “drive” and (probably) this is where the whole parade thing started. The biggest home of the old style “Courir” is in Mamou, where, apparently we <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfJ1JZkH0dA/">might have seen Anthony Bourdain</a>, but we decide to go to Iota for a Tee Mamou, or small mamou.</p> +<p>There was plenty of food and two stages with various Cajun bands.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Before the main run, or drive in this case, there was a children’s version that led up to stage for some dancing.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Then the main run started, costumed people descended on the downtown area, chasing chickens, dancing, and begging for loose change. There’s plenty of drunkenness, going on, but it’s not the chaos you might expect. There’s a Capitaine in charge of keeping people in line and he has a whip to back up whatever the rules are.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143803-1_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143803-1_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143803-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143803-1_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143803-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143803-1_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143955_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143955_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143955_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143955_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143955_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143955_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + </div> + + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/on-avery-island" rel="prev" title=" On Avery Island">On Avery Island</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/vermilionville-grand-isle" rel="next" title=" Vermilionville & Grand Isle">Vermilionville & Grand Isle</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-3050" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for classical_liberal" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>classical_liberal</b></span> + <span class="when">March 01, 2018 at 12:48 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Holy Crap! </p> +<p>I started my road trip, eventually bound for Tucson, straight south and realized it was Marti Gras. I’d never been to NOLA, you gave it rave reviews, so I figured what the heck. I spent Sunday evening through Wednesday there. I really enjoyed the people, talked to a bunch of locals. Enjoyed a night of debauchery as well.</p> +<p>I’d really like to see the city in more normal circumstances, its definitely on my list for a travel nurse assignment. I tried to describe the culture to my GF as a combination of southern hospitality, but with a libertarian twist.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3058" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">March 08, 2018 at 9:23 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@classical_liberal-</p> +<p>That’s awesome, glad you had a good time. And from what I’ve seen, New Orleans on Mardi Gras just has a few more parades than usual, otherwise it seems the same. 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Like most of the nation, for us Mardi Gras was just another Tuesday. Once we realized that our timing would put us there though we knew we had to go, preferably out deep in the Cajun/Acadian region from which Mardi Gras originates.
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+I won't pretend to understand Mardi Gras, or where it comes from, though at least some of what we saw apparently dates from the Middle Ages when various guilds and small secret societies would celebrate, er, something? Some say it goes back to the feast of begging, in medieval France, but a good argument can be made that it's much older than that. Whatever its origins, it's insular enough that if you aren't part of the culture, I don't think you'll ever really understand it. That won't stop you from enjoying it though.
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+Part of what makes it complicated is that there are so many different ways people celebrate Mardi Gras. What you see in one place often bears no resemblance to what you see in another.
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+The only thing historians of Mardi Gras seem to agree upon is that at some point Mardi Gras became intertwined with the Catholic celebration of Lent. Mardi Gras became a celebration of excess in preparation for the deprivation of Lent. I think. Beads, heavy drinking and most of the other things we outsiders associate with Mardi Gras are apparently quite recent though, starting some time in the late 1940s, or '50s, or '60s, depending on who you ask.
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+The basis of most celebrations these days are the parades, huge floats full of people decorated with beads marching through towns, throwing out candy, toys and beads to those of us who gather to watch. We got beads, so many beads.
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+We attended two Mardi Gras celebrations, the first was a children's parade in Lafayette. It wasn't the best day for a parade, rain poured down just as it was about to get underway, but that didn't stop anyone, including us.
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+We managed to make it back to the campground in time for the golf cart parade. Like I said, Mardi Gras is all about the parades, even when they're small.
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+Before there were beads there was the Courir de Mardi Gras, which is Cajun French for "Fat Tuesday Run". As with so many things in America over the last century, "run" morphed into "drive" and (probably) this is where the whole parade thing started. The biggest home of the old style "Courir" is in Mamou, where, apparently we [might have seen Anthony Bourdain](https://www.instagram.com/p/BfJ1JZkH0dA/), but we decide to go to Iota for a Tee Mamou, or small mamou.
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+There was plenty of food and two stages with various Cajun bands.
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+Before the main run, or drive in this case, there was a children's version that led up to stage for some dancing.
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+Then the main run started, costumed people descended on the downtown area, chasing chickens, dancing, and begging for loose change. There's plenty of drunkenness, going on, but it's not the chaos you might expect. There's a Capitaine in charge of keeping people in line and he has a whip to back up whatever the rules are.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-02-08T10:04:24" itemprop="datePublished">February <span>8, 2018</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>Avery Island is best known to me as the title of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Avery_Island">Neutral Milk Hotel album</a>, but for most people it’s probably better known as the home of Tabasco. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg" alt="Tabasco factory, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I love hot sauce, all kinds of hot sauce. A quick inventory of the pantry just now produced seven different bottle of hot sauce, including one home made ghost pepper sauce. Despite that I’ve never really like Tabasco, it’s too vinegary to me. Still, people love it and it’s been made more or less the same way, by the same family, since shortly after the Civil War. That’s a longer, more storied history than any of the bottles in my pantry.</p> +<p>My father-in-law grew up on this area and toured Avery Island in grade school, we put the kids in his footsteps. Or sort of. Back in the fifties they let you actually go in the salt mines, today you get to walk through a Disneylandesque replica. Otherwise though I doubt much as changed. For as widely distributed, and seemingly huge as the Tabasco company seems, production is decidedly down home.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tabasco tour, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tabasco tour, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tabasco tour, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not a salt mine."> + </a> +<figcaption>Not a salt mine.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Part of the reason Tabasco is on Avery Island is that the island — which is just barely deserving of the name island — is made mostly of salt. When Tabasco was founded everything was right there, plant peppers, mine salt and you’re away. </p> +<p>Avery Island also happens to be one of the tallest points in southern Louisiana, sitting at 163 feet above sea level. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s allowed the structures on the island to survive over a hundred years of hurricanes. Apparently that’s changing though. Rita, which hit this area hard in 2005, flooded the marshes and much of the island, and things are getting worse every year.</p> +<p>The marsh that protects the island loses about 30 feet per year as saltwater from rising seas seeps in and kills off the fresh water plants. As those plants die the soil loosens and dissolves, washing out the sea. Dredging for shipping canals and oil exploration canals abandoned by the oil companies also hasten erosion of the marshes. Without the buffer of the marsh the storm surge of the more frequent and stronger storms reaches further inland, up onto the island.</p> +<p>The McIlhenny family has been working hard to combat the soil loss, planting cordgrass and building its own levee and pumps system, which is not uncommon down here. There’s simply too much coastline and it’s disappearing too fast for the government of Louisiana to deal with, towns and companies in the area are <a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/08/levee-ing_the_odds_southwest_l.html">building their own systems</a>. In the end nothing is going to stop the sea, some places will survive just fine, and Avery Island may well be one of them, but even the current heads of the McIlhenny family admit they might have to <a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/tabascos_homeland_is_in_a_figh.html">move</a> someday.</p> +<p>In the mean time, the hot sauce is still too vinegary in my opinion, but the factory tour is well worth it, even the finished product isn’t your thing.</p> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="field_notes"> + <h3>Field Notes</h3> + <ul> + <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/two-photos">Two Photos</a></li> + </ul> + </aside> + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/on-the-beach" rel="prev" title=" On the Beach">On the Beach</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/mardi-gras-deux-facons" rel="next" title=" Mardi Gras Deux Façons">Mardi Gras Deux Façons</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<div class="comment--form--wrapper "> + +<div class="comment--form--header"> + <p class="hed">Thoughts?</p> + <p class="subhed">Please leave a reply:</p> +</div> +<form action="/comments/post/" method="post" class="comment--form"> + +<input type="hidden" name="rder" value="" /> + + + <input type="hidden" name="content_type" value="jrnl.entry" id="id_content_type"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="object_pk" value="242" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833359" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="80c81230781424cbb7dffdb879abfad1fefaafa1" id="id_security_hash"> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_name">Name:</label> + <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" required id="id_name"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_email">Email address:</label> + <input type="email" name="email" required id="id_email"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_url">URL:</label> + <input type="url" name="url" id="id_url"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_comment">Comment:</label> + <div class="textarea-rounded"><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="3000" required id="id_comment"> +</textarea></div> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset style="display:none;"> + <label for="id_honeypot">If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:</label> + <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot"> + </fieldset> + + + <div class="submit"> + <input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post btn" value="Post" /> + <input type="submit" name="preview" class="submit-preview btn" value="Preview" /> + </div> +</form> +<p style="font-size: 95%;"><strong>All comments are moderated</strong>, so you won’t see it right away. 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+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1130" class="picwide" />
+
+I love hot sauce, all kinds of hot sauce. A quick inventory of the pantry just now produced seven different bottle of hot sauce, including one home made ghost pepper sauce. Despite that I've never really like Tabasco, it's too vinegary to me. Still, people love it and it's been made more or less the same way, by the same family, since shortly after the Civil War. That's a longer, more storied history than any of the bottles in my pantry.
+
+My father-in-law grew up on this area and toured Avery Island in grade school, we put the kids in his footsteps. Or sort of. Back in the fifties they let you actually go in the salt mines, today you get to walk through a Disneylandesque replica. Otherwise though I doubt much as changed. For as widely distributed, and seemingly huge as the Tabasco company seems, production is decidedly down home.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1131" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1132" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1133" class="picwide caption" />
+
+
+Part of the reason Tabasco is on Avery Island is that the island -- which is just barely deserving of the name island -- is made mostly of salt. When Tabasco was founded everything was right there, plant peppers, mine salt and you're away.
+
+Avery Island also happens to be one of the tallest points in southern Louisiana, sitting at 163 feet above sea level. It doesn't sound like much, but it's allowed the structures on the island to survive over a hundred years of hurricanes. Apparently that's changing though. Rita, which hit this area hard in 2005, flooded the marshes and much of the island, and things are getting worse every year.
+
+The marsh that protects the island loses about 30 feet per year as saltwater from rising seas seeps in and kills off the fresh water plants. As those plants die the soil loosens and dissolves, washing out the sea. Dredging for shipping canals and oil exploration canals abandoned by the oil companies also hasten erosion of the marshes. Without the buffer of the marsh the storm surge of the more frequent and stronger storms reaches further inland, up onto the island.
+
+The McIlhenny family has been working hard to combat the soil loss, planting cordgrass and building its own levee and pumps system, which is not uncommon down here. There's simply too much coastline and it's disappearing too fast for the government of Louisiana to deal with, towns and companies in the area are [building their own systems](http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/08/levee-ing_the_odds_southwest_l.html). In the end nothing is going to stop the sea, some places will survive just fine, and Avery Island may well be one of them, but even the current heads of the McIlhenny family admit they might have to [move](http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/tabascos_homeland_is_in_a_figh.html) someday.
+
+In the mean time, the hot sauce is still too vinegary in my opinion, but the factory tour is well worth it, even the finished product isn't your thing. diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f47fa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.html @@ -0,0 +1,524 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html +class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> + +<head> + <title>On The Beach - by Scott Gilbertson</title> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="description" + content="Soft sand? Ten thousand pound vehicle? 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Ten thousand pound vehicle? What could go wrong? </p> +<p>If you want a view like this though, you have to park in places like this:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg" alt="The bus on rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Ordinarily I probably wouldn’t have done it, but when we pulled in there was another rig parked further down and its own came over and offered to pull us out with his truck should anything go wrong. I walked the sand it seemed firm enough so we went for it and it all worked out fine. There’s nothing like free ocean front camping.</p> +<p>If you use the websites I mentioned in the last post, notably freecampsites.net, and you zoom in on the south Louisiana coast there are basically two places to camp, Holly Beach and Rutherford Beach. After not finding much to like about <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast">Holly Beach</a> we were prepared to be disappointed by Rutherford a well, but it turned out to be pretty near perfect. It’s also listed as one of the best shell beaches around and it definitely has more shells than anywhere I’ve ever been.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shells of rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shells of rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shells of rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We spent five days on the beach. It stormed a good bit and fog would roll in pretty much every night, hiding the lights both onshore and off, making it feel like we were all alone in the world. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="fishing rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This was about ten minutes before the tide ate our sand spike."> + </a> +<figcaption>This was about ten minutes before the tide ate our sand spike.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus on rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Coot </li> + + <li>American White Pelican </li> + + <li>Belted Kingfisher </li> + + <li>Boat-tailed Grackle </li> + + <li>Brown Pelican </li> + + <li>Canada Goose </li> + + <li>Cattle Egret </li> + + <li>Crested Caracara </li> + + <li>Double-crested Cormorant </li> + + <li>Eastern Meadowlark </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Great Egret </li> + + <li>Green Heron </li> + + <li>Neotropic Cormorant </li> + + <li>Northern Shoveler </li> + + <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> + + <li>Roseate Spoonbill </li> + + <li>Snowy Egret </li> + + <li>White Ibis </li> + + <li>Wilson's Snipe </li> + </ul> + </ul> + </aside> + + <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> + <h3>Field Notes</h3> + <ul> + <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/camping">Camping</a></li> + + <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/ferry">Ferry</a></li> + </ul> + </aside> + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast" rel="prev" title=" Hugging the Coast">Hugging the Coast</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/on-avery-island" rel="next" title=" On Avery Island">On Avery Island</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-3026" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for DREW" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>DREW</b></span> + <span class="when">February 21, 2018 at 3:10 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I wish I could post a photo of my cubicle right now to make you feel that much better about your decisions. I click on this page almost daily hoping to find you all are still fighting the good fight. All alone in the world with your family seems like a pretty content place to be. God speed.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3028" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> + <span class="when">February 21, 2018 at 8:25 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Love the shells and the deserted beach. Your pictures are amazing!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3031" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">February 22, 2018 at 3:10 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>You got to get out of that cubicle man. Also, we may be in your neck of the woods early summer. Just an FYI. I’d start now, try to fill up your driveway and eliminate any other large parking spaces in your immediate area. You don’t want to end up with some giant motorhome blocking your house. :-)</p> +<p>@Patsy-</p> +<p>Thank you.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3034" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for DREW" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>DREW</b></span> + <span class="when">February 23, 2018 at 8:43 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Were moving to the other side of Signal this coming Monday. Its a bigger house with full basement, etc. Plenty of room for you all to crash assuming you can make it up Signal mntn. LOL…. Its not big (maybe 1200 ft gain, but its steep). Maybe park the bus at Walmart at the foot and bring the dingy up. 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+Soft sand? Ten thousand pound vehicle? What could go wrong?
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+If you want a view like this though, you have to park in places like this:
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach.jpg" id="image-1123" class="picwide" />
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+Ordinarily I probably wouldn't have done it, but when we pulled in there was another rig parked further down and its own came over and offered to pull us out with his truck should anything go wrong. I walked the sand it seemed firm enough so we went for it and it all worked out fine. There's nothing like free ocean front camping.
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+If you use the websites I mentioned in the last post, notably freecampsites.net, and you zoom in on the south Louisiana coast there are basically two places to camp, Holly Beach and Rutherford Beach. After not finding much to like about [Holly Beach](/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast) we were prepared to be disappointed by Rutherford a well, but it turned out to be pretty near perfect. It's also listed as one of the best shell beaches around and it definitely has more shells than anywhere I've ever been.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach.jpg" id="image-1122" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach.jpg" id="image-1126" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach.jpg" id="image-1121" class="picwide" />
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+We spent five days on the beach. It stormed a good bit and fog would roll in pretty much every night, hiding the lights both onshore and off, making it feel like we were all alone in the world.
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I parked the bus in a camp site at Bayou Segnette, jumped in the car and we headed into the city. No one used the word “brakes”. It was a perfect day.</p> +<p>Somewhere on the drive in we’d crossed over the little line dividing the Gulf air from the lower edge of the jet stream<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. On the other side of that line is warmth. So, despite being February, New Orleans was the only way it’s ever been in the eight times I’ve been here, as far as I can tell, the only way it ever is, the way it should be, the way it was meant to be: hot, humid, sweltering. I wouldn’t want it any other way.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide.jpg" alt="walking the streets of new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Windows, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walking, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>This time around we hit some of our favorite spots, crepes in the French Market, swings and Storyland out at City Park, but we also spent more time in one of my favorite parts of New Orleans, Faubourg Treme. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="crepes in the french market photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Crepes in the french market"> + </a> +<figcaption>Crepes in the french market</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tomb of the unknown slave, faubourg treme photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Tomb of the unknown slave, Faubourg Treme"> + </a> +<figcaption>Tomb of the unknown slave, Faubourg Treme</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I ended up finding a good coffee shop to work at in the heart of Treme. It also served Sno-balls with an absurd amount of syrup on them, which kept the kids on a good sugar high while we wandered the streets.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="blue tongue photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>While I was working Corrinne and the kids went to the Children’s Museum, which they all said was the best they’ve ever been to. Good enough that they went back a couple of times.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103834.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide-med.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103834.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114805.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_114805_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114805.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114621.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_114621_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114621.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_110452.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_110452_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_110452.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180220_102944.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180220_102944_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180220_102944.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + +<figure > + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103209.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide-med.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103209.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Going native."></a> +<figcaption>Going native.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</div> + +<p>I’d be hard pressed to come up with a more kid-friendly city than New Orleans, but then I think our kids may be a bit unusual. </p> +<p>One day at the campground I was working and Corrinne took the kids to the little playground. There ended up being some other kids there and they were all playing together. I wasn’t there but apparently the parents were complaining about how dirty New Orleans was (homeless people! Poop on the street! The horror!) and one of the kids told Lilah she didn’t like New Orleans. Later, when they were walking back to the bus Lilah whispered to Corrinne, <em>I just don’t think I could be friends with someone who doesn’t like New Orleans</em>.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="carousel, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The world's fastest carousel did not seem quite as fast this year. Maybe it's just us."> + </a> +<figcaption>The world’s fastest carousel did not seem quite as fast this year. Maybe it’s just us.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>While it would have been nice to ignore the brake situation completely, it did need to be dealt with. I got in touch with a shop that said they could do it and drove it over one morning. They got it apart and for the first time I saw the front shoes, and yep, we need new shoes, badly. Unfortunately the shoes are a bit of an oddity and the shop couldn’t get a shoe that fit. We ended up sleeping in the bus in the driveway of the shop with one tire off that night. Probably our oddest campsite thus far.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>In the end though, two different shoes were ordered and neither ended up fitting. The next day we limped back to the campground to wait on a third set that was on order, but wouldn’t get here for five days. That meant an extra few days in New Orleans, but we’ve certainly been stranded in far less interesting places. No one was complaining this time.</p> +<p>We spent more time hanging around the campground this time around. Sometimes it’s good to spend a few days doing nothing. I worked, the kids played, we cooked lots of blackend redfish, ate crawfish boudin, and waited out a rainstorm or two. Once I even tricked the kids into letting me take portraits of them.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Bayou Segnette photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing at the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grumpy boy photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="rainy days photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Blackened Redfish photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="No we didn't catch it."> + </a> +<figcaption>No we didn’t catch it.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Nice Airstream photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="No offense to anyone who owns an Airstream, but, while they're cool, they're a dime a dozen. This, however, was utterly remarkable. Far and away the best homemade camper I've seen, anywhere. The skill and attention to detail on this thing was amazing. Plus, he can climb mountains without ever thinking about it. Possibly the first rig I've been jealous of."> + </a> +<figcaption>No offense to anyone who owns an Airstream, but, while they’re cool, they’re a dime a dozen. This, however, was utterly remarkable. Far and away the best homemade camper I’ve seen, anywhere. The skill and attention to detail on this thing was amazing. Plus, he can climb mountains without ever thinking about it. Possibly the first rig I’ve been jealous of.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl smiling photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl smiling photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>At the end of five days of waiting… that shoe didn’t fit either. I eventually tracked down shoes for the front, but it’d be another five days to have them shipped down and that would mean missing out on our reservations at Fort Pickens. We decided that, if we stuck to the interstate and avoided the stop and go traffic, it’d be fine. I also had a list of shops in Pensacola that I was pretty sure could help us out.</p> +<p>After ten days in New Orleans we were ready to move on anyway. It’s a lovely city, it’d still be top of our list to move to if we were interested in living in a city. But we’re not. Right now we’re more interested in discovering what’s around the next corner.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Not mentioned in my summary of our planning tools were a couple of weather-related websites. We use <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-86.26,31.40,3000">https://earth.nullschool.net/</a> obsessively, or at least I do. Pretty sure my wife has better things to do with her life. But between that site and <a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/large">the University of Wisconsin’s various weather data</a> you can get a pretty definitive understanding of why the weather is what it is where you are and where you need to go to improve it. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Fish Crow </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Inca Dove </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> + + <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> + + <li>White Ibis </li> + + <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> + </ul> + </ul> + </aside> + + + <aside id="recommended-reading" " > + <h3>Recommended Reading</h3> + <ul> + <li><a href="/book-notes/teche-a-history-of-louisianas-most-famous-bayou"><img src="/media/images//book-covers/teche_W6An1Xt_small.jpg" /></a></li> + </ul> + </aside> + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/vermilionville-grand-isle" rel="prev" title=" Vermilionville & Grand Isle">Vermilionville & Grand Isle</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/island-sun" rel="next" title=" Island in the Sun">Island in the Sun</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-3068" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> + <span class="when">March 13, 2018 at 3:23 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Love reading your blogs, but love the pictures of the children even more. Such a Beautiful family!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3070" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">March 14, 2018 at 9:23 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Patsy- </p> +<p>Thank you.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + </div> + + +<div class="comment--form--wrapper comment-form-border"> + +<div class="comment--form--header"> + <p class="hed">Thoughts?</p> + <p class="subhed">Please leave a reply:</p> +</div> +<form action="/comments/post/" method="post" class="comment--form"> + +<input type="hidden" name="rder" value="" /> + + + <input type="hidden" name="content_type" value="jrnl.entry" id="id_content_type"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="object_pk" value="245" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833357" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="213d36ace2c73c9c243642ba9da6f80bdde02744" id="id_security_hash"> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_name">Name:</label> + <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" required id="id_name"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_email">Email address:</label> + <input type="email" name="email" required id="id_email"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_url">URL:</label> + <input type="url" name="url" id="id_url"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_comment">Comment:</label> + <div class="textarea-rounded"><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="3000" required id="id_comment"> +</textarea></div> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset style="display:none;"> + <label for="id_honeypot">If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:</label> + <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot"> + </fieldset> + + + <div class="submit"> + <input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post btn" value="Post" /> + <input type="submit" name="preview" class="submit-preview btn" value="Preview" /> + </div> +</form> +<p style="font-size: 95%;"><strong>All comments are moderated</strong>, so you won’t see it right away. 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I parked the bus in a camp site at Bayou Segnette, jumped in the car and we headed into the city. No one used the word "brakes". It was a perfect day.
+
+Somewhere on the drive in we'd crossed over the little line dividing the Gulf air from the lower edge of the jet stream[^1]. On the other side of that line is warmth. So, despite being February, New Orleans was the only way it's ever been in the eight times I've been here, as far as I can tell, the only way it ever is, the way it should be, the way it was meant to be: hot, humid, sweltering. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1188" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1190" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1191" class="picwide" />
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+This time around we hit some of our favorite spots, crepes in the French Market, swings and Storyland out at City Park, but we also spent more time in one of my favorite parts of New Orleans, Faubourg Treme.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1178" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1193" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1187" class="picwide caption" />
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+I ended up finding a good coffee shop to work at in the heart of Treme. It also served Sno-balls with an absurd amount of syrup on them, which kept the kids on a good sugar high while we wandered the streets.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1189" class="picwide" />
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+While I was working Corrinne and the kids went to the Children's Museum, which they all said was the best they've ever been to. Good enough that they went back a couple of times.
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+I'd be hard pressed to come up with a more kid-friendly city than New Orleans, but then I think our kids may be a bit unusual.
+
+One day at the campground I was working and Corrinne took the kids to the little playground. There ended up being some other kids there and they were all playing together. I wasn't there but apparently the parents were complaining about how dirty New Orleans was (homeless people! Poop on the street! The horror!) and one of the kids told Lilah she didn't like New Orleans. Later, when they were walking back to the bus Lilah whispered to Corrinne, *I just don't think I could be friends with someone who doesn't like New Orleans*.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1196" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1194" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1195" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1197" class="picwide" />
+
+While it would have been nice to ignore the brake situation completely, it did need to be dealt with. I got in touch with a shop that said they could do it and drove it over one morning. They got it apart and for the first time I saw the front shoes, and yep, we need new shoes, badly. Unfortunately the shoes are a bit of an oddity and the shop couldn't get a shoe that fit. We ended up sleeping in the bus in the driveway of the shop with one tire off that night. Probably our oddest campsite thus far.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1192" class="picwide" />
+
+In the end though, two different shoes were ordered and neither ended up fitting. The next day we limped back to the campground to wait on a third set that was on order, but wouldn't get here for five days. That meant an extra few days in New Orleans, but we've certainly been stranded in far less interesting places. No one was complaining this time.
+
+We spent more time hanging around the campground this time around. Sometimes it's good to spend a few days doing nothing. I worked, the kids played, we cooked lots of blackend redfish, ate crawfish boudin, and waited out a rainstorm or two. Once I even tricked the kids into letting me take portraits of them.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1179" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1198" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1199" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1184" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119.jpg" id="image-1207" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1181" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1182" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-1180" class="picwide" />
+
+
+At the end of five days of waiting... that shoe didn't fit either. I eventually tracked down shoes for the front, but it'd be another five days to have them shipped down and that would mean missing out on our reservations at Fort Pickens. We decided that, if we stuck to the interstate and avoided the stop and go traffic, it'd be fine. I also had a list of shops in Pensacola that I was pretty sure could help us out.
+
+After ten days in New Orleans we were ready to move on anyway. It's a lovely city, it'd still be top of our list to move to if we were interested in living in a city. But we're not. Right now we're more interested in discovering what's around the next corner.
+
+[^1]: Not mentioned in my summary of our planning tools were a couple of weather-related websites. We use [https://earth.nullschool.net/][1] obsessively, or at least I do. Pretty sure my wife has better things to do with her life. But between that site and [the University of Wisconsin's various weather data][2] you can get a pretty definitive understanding of why the weather is what it is where you are and where you need to go to improve it.
+
+[1]: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-86.26,31.40,3000
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-02-21T16:18:55" itemprop="datePublished">February <span>21, 2018</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>Just before Mardi Gras we had planned to head up to Lafayette, LA. There was a nice county park there that would have put us walking distance to some of the Mardi Gras things we wanted to do, but on the way there the brakes went out on the bus. I found a shop, put in a new master cylinder, but to accommodate that we ended up staying in Palmetto Island. Not a big deal, but it did mean we missed out on a couple things we wanted to do in Lafayette.</p> +<p>The main one was visiting <a href="http://www.vermilionville.org/vermilionville/index-old.html">Vermilionville</a>, so on our way to Grand Isle we swung north to Vermilionville for the morning. Vermilionville is a little bit like <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/05/austin-part-one">Pioneer Farm near Austin</a>, except that instead of Texas history, Vermilionville is preserving some of the Cajun and Acadian culture that once dominated the area. There’s a bayou, some old bayou-style acadian homes that have been brought here, restored and once again face the bayou.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Vermilionville, Louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Vermilionville, Louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Vermilionville, Louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="It was this big..."> + </a> +<figcaption>It was this big…</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The brakes still weren’t quite where I wanted them, so I spent a bit of time in the Vermilionville parking lot tinkering, testing and mostly failing and sighing a lot. Eventually I decided to just go for it. We were only planning to go about a hour down the road, to a campsite we’d been told about by someone at Bayou Segnette. It was all highway driving, so the stop and go would be minimal. I made it, but by the time we got to our camp I’d died several times and knew what my problem was — vacuum leak. </p> +<p>It was too late to run anywhere for parts so I just parked it in our campsite and took the kids over to the playground. When in doubt it’s best to relax and think things over. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Burn's Point Campground, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="burn's point park, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sunset, burn's point park, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="You don't see many sunsets over the water along the gulf coast, but when you do..."> + </a> +<figcaption>You don’t see many sunsets over the water along the gulf coast, but when you do…</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The next day we set out for Grand Isle. Corrinne and kids went ahead to run some errands along the way while I limped along behind them. I pulled into a Walmart parking lot to see if I could track down the vacuum leak. I ended up spending a few hours under the bus, running around getting some new hoses, failing to find new hoses and just generally failing. I cut down the main rubber hose that connects the engine side to vacuum line running back to the booster, reconnected it. Hit all the connections toward the back with starter fluid, hit the engine connections with WD40 and nothing ever sent the engine revving up or otherwise indicated I’d found the problem. </p> +<p>By then it was 3 o’clock and we still had a good hour of driving to do so I fired it and when it didn’t immediately die, decided that was good enough for the day. Clearly my standards have slipped. At the time I was thinking well, if I have to spend all day under the bus, in the heat, at least I want to be able to jump in the ocean when I’m done, so let’s get to Grand Isle and then I’ll work on it some more. It was a pretty good plan, except that I didn’t anticipate the mosquitoes.</p> +<p>Grand Isle is a strange little place, one of those places whose heyday is well in time’s rearview mirror, but has managed in the mean time to develop a dilapidated charm all its own. Certainly an impressive amount of engineering and roadwork went into making it even possible to get out here. It’s way, way out here. From here the next point south is the Yucatan. On the drive out you pass through some gorgeous marshland and get a tour of all the various efforts to stop the effects of rising seas and increasing hurricane frequency. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The first day we were there I ignored the bus and spent the day at the beach like a regular tourist.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Because it's so close to the mouth of the Mississippi the sand at Grand Isle is really more like silt, getting it off your hands so you can have a snack is an ordeal."> + </a> +<figcaption>Because it’s so close to the mouth of the Mississippi the sand at Grand Isle is really more like silt, getting it off your hands so you can have a snack is an ordeal.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The next day I got back to work on the vacuum lines. Or rather I work my day job in the morning, waiting for the wind to pick up and then once it did, it drove the mosquitoes away and I could get to work on the bus. The mosquitoes on Grand Isle were the worst we’ve seen anywhere. They were massive, flew in swarms so thick you could see them coming and seemed totally immune to all the bug repellents we own. At times they made an otherwise quite nice place into a pretty miserable one. Fortunately during the day there was enough of an onshore breeze to drive them away.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + +<figure class="pic5"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180215_115105.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180215_115105_pic5.jpg" alt="engine repair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180215_115105.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="All the necessary tools for engine work."></a> +<figcaption>All the necessary tools for engine work.</figcaption> +</figure> + + + + +<figure class="pic5"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180214_175949.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180214_175949_pic5.jpg" alt="playing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180214_175949.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Meanwhile, basket construction."></a> +<figcaption>Meanwhile, basket construction.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</span> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I started by checking every hose on top of the engine and found a cracked heater hose I’d been avoiding dealing with for some time. When I bent it back to get it out of the way it ruptured and dumped a considerably amount of coolant all over the engine. Fortunately there was plenty of slack in the hose so, after giving the rest of it a thorough inspection, I was able to cut off the bad end and reattach it. </p> +<p>Then I decided to replace the fuel filter because I’d been meaning to for about 1000 miles now. I started to do that realized one of the small rubber fuel hoses was cracked, so I swapped that out as well. Then I went rhough tightening all the bolts I could find and, by the end of the day, I’d done next to nothing to fix the vacuum leak, but had put in a good few hours of repairs.</p> +<p>The next day when the breeze kicked in again I got serious and pulled out the entire main vacuum line from engine to rear booster and inspected it thoroughly, finding nothing. However, when I put it back together again I had 20in of pressure and the engine was purring right where I like it to be. Alas, the brakes were still soft and would lock up sometimes, which probably means there’s still a vacuum leak in there somewhere. I also knew we needed new shoes, which I wasn’t about to do on an island in the middle of nowhere. </p> +<p>That, combined with the mosquitoes, made the decision easy. We left Grand Isle after three nights. It’s a nice place, well worth a visit, but we needed to get to New Orleans.</p> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="field_notes"> + <h3>Field Notes</h3> + <ul> + <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/03/signs-times">Signs of the Times</a></li> + </ul> + </aside> + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/mardi-gras-deux-facons" rel="prev" title=" Mardi Gras Deux Façons">Mardi Gras Deux Façons</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/trapped-inside-song" rel="next" title=" Trapped Inside the Song">Trapped Inside the Song</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">1 Comment</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-3060" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for DREW" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>DREW</b></span> + <span class="when">March 08, 2018 at 10:11 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>“Clearly my standards have slipped”….. making lemonade.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + </div> + + +<div class="comment--form--wrapper comment-form-border"> + +<div class="comment--form--header"> + <p class="hed">Thoughts?</p> + <p class="subhed">Please leave a reply:</p> +</div> +<form action="/comments/post/" method="post" class="comment--form"> + +<input type="hidden" name="rder" value="" /> + + + <input type="hidden" name="content_type" value="jrnl.entry" id="id_content_type"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="object_pk" value="244" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833358" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="cc0129983c10f4c1fdc2df0922ff3955146e9dde" id="id_security_hash"> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_name">Name:</label> + <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" required id="id_name"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_email">Email address:</label> + <input type="email" name="email" required id="id_email"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_url">URL:</label> + <input type="url" name="url" id="id_url"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_comment">Comment:</label> + <div class="textarea-rounded"><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="3000" required id="id_comment"> +</textarea></div> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset style="display:none;"> + <label for="id_honeypot">If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:</label> + <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot"> + </fieldset> + + + <div class="submit"> + <input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post btn" value="Post" /> + <input type="submit" name="preview" class="submit-preview btn" value="Preview" /> + </div> +</form> +<p style="font-size: 95%;"><strong>All comments are moderated</strong>, so you won’t see it right away. 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There was a nice county park there that would have put us walking distance to some of the Mardi Gras things we wanted to do, but on the way there the brakes went out on the bus. I found a shop, put in a new master cylinder, but to accommodate that we ended up staying in Palmetto Island. Not a big deal, but it did mean we missed out on a couple things we wanted to do in Lafayette.
+
+The main one was visiting [Vermilionville](http://www.vermilionville.org/vermilionville/index-old.html), so on our way to Grand Isle we swung north to Vermilionville for the morning. Vermilionville is a little bit like [Pioneer Farm near Austin](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/05/austin-part-one), except that instead of Texas history, Vermilionville is preserving some of the Cajun and Acadian culture that once dominated the area. There's a bayou, some old bayou-style acadian homes that have been brought here, restored and once again face the bayou.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville.jpg" id="image-1161" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville.jpg" id="image-1159" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville.jpg" id="image-1160" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The brakes still weren't quite where I wanted them, so I spent a bit of time in the Vermilionville parking lot tinkering, testing and mostly failing and sighing a lot. Eventually I decided to just go for it. We were only planning to go about a hour down the road, to a campsite we'd been told about by someone at Bayou Segnette. It was all highway driving, so the stop and go would be minimal. I made it, but by the time we got to our camp I'd died several times and knew what my problem was -- vacuum leak.
+
+It was too late to run anywhere for parts so I just parked it in our campsite and took the kids over to the playground. When in doubt it's best to relax and think things over.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1162" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1163" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1165" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The next day we set out for Grand Isle. Corrinne and kids went ahead to run some errands along the way while I limped along behind them. I pulled into a Walmart parking lot to see if I could track down the vacuum leak. I ended up spending a few hours under the bus, running around getting some new hoses, failing to find new hoses and just generally failing. I cut down the main rubber hose that connects the engine side to vacuum line running back to the booster, reconnected it. Hit all the connections toward the back with starter fluid, hit the engine connections with WD40 and nothing ever sent the engine revving up or otherwise indicated I'd found the problem.
+
+By then it was 3 o'clock and we still had a good hour of driving to do so I fired it and when it didn't immediately die, decided that was good enough for the day. Clearly my standards have slipped. At the time I was thinking well, if I have to spend all day under the bus, in the heat, at least I want to be able to jump in the ocean when I'm done, so let's get to Grand Isle and then I'll work on it some more. It was a pretty good plan, except that I didn't anticipate the mosquitoes.
+
+Grand Isle is a strange little place, one of those places whose heyday is well in time's rearview mirror, but has managed in the mean time to develop a dilapidated charm all its own. Certainly an impressive amount of engineering and roadwork went into making it even possible to get out here. It's way, way out here. From here the next point south is the Yucatan. On the drive out you pass through some gorgeous marshland and get a tour of all the various efforts to stop the effects of rising seas and increasing hurricane frequency.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1172" class="picwide" />
+
+The first day we were there I ignored the bus and spent the day at the beach like a regular tourist.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1166" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1167" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1168" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1169" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The next day I got back to work on the vacuum lines. Or rather I work my day job in the morning, waiting for the wind to pick up and then once it did, it drove the mosquitoes away and I could get to work on the bus. The mosquitoes on Grand Isle were the worst we've seen anywhere. They were massive, flew in swarms so thick you could see them coming and seemed totally immune to all the bug repellents we own. At times they made an otherwise quite nice place into a pretty miserable one. Fortunately during the day there was enough of an onshore breeze to drive them away.
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+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2018/20180215_115105.jpg" id="image-1177" class="cluster pic5 caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/20180214_175949.jpg" id="image-1176" class="cluster pic5 caption" />
+</span>
+</div>
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1170" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1171" class="picwide" />
+
+
+I started by checking every hose on top of the engine and found a cracked heater hose I'd been avoiding dealing with for some time. When I bent it back to get it out of the way it ruptured and dumped a considerably amount of coolant all over the engine. Fortunately there was plenty of slack in the hose so, after giving the rest of it a thorough inspection, I was able to cut off the bad end and reattach it.
+
+Then I decided to replace the fuel filter because I'd been meaning to for about 1000 miles now. I started to do that realized one of the small rubber fuel hoses was cracked, so I swapped that out as well. Then I went rhough tightening all the bolts I could find and, by the end of the day, I'd done next to nothing to fix the vacuum leak, but had put in a good few hours of repairs.
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+The next day when the breeze kicked in again I got serious and pulled out the entire main vacuum line from engine to rear booster and inspected it thoroughly, finding nothing. However, when I put it back together again I had 20in of pressure and the engine was purring right where I like it to be. Alas, the brakes were still soft and would lock up sometimes, which probably means there's still a vacuum leak in there somewhere. I also knew we needed new shoes, which I wasn't about to do on an island in the middle of nowhere.
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+That, combined with the mosquitoes, made the decision easy. We left Grand Isle after three nights. It's a nice place, well worth a visit, but we needed to get to New Orleans. |