Baton Rouge, the Red Stick.
We arrived here last Sunday and it was 80 degrees and sunny, and so far that has been the bad weather day. It has been in the high 80’s to mid 90’s since we’ve been here and the humidity is right around 300%.
We’re camped at a city park which is about 2 miles south of the LSU campus and 3 miles from Downtown and best of all only 2 miles from Mike Andersons Seafood Restaurant. They have the best food and service that we have come across this entire season, we’ve only been there 3 times this week.
We spent one day downtown touring the Capitol Bldg, they show you where Huey Long was assassinated and then you can go up to the observation deck, the Capitol Bldg is the tallest one in the USA. The observation deck is on the 27 floor and is right on the Mississippi River so you really get a great view of the town and surrounding area. Huey Long had the first bridge built crossing the river here and he had them make it low enough so that the big ship could not get any further up the river and had to stop at the Port of Baton Rouge, you gotta love a man that thinks like that. The amazing thing is you can’t say Louisiana with out thinking of Huey Long yet he only served one term as Governor and was assassinated during the 2nd year of his term as Senator. He made quite a name for such a short time.
We went to the city Zoo, which we had almost all to ourselves, it’s a very nice zoo and you can cover it in about two hours. All the animals were very active while we were there.
There are a ton of other things to do in this area and you could spend a month here very easy.
Today we’re going to tour the Old Capitol Museum and tomorrow we’ll drive over to Lafayette to visit with Cathy’s Sister
More to follow.
