ST FRANCISVILLE LOUISIANA

April 10, 2012

Day two of our sight seeing in Louisiana, we headed out northeast of our campground toward the Mississippi River. St. Francisville was quite interesting.  We began by stopping at the visitor's center which was in a pre Civil War building.  From their we were directed to the oldest part of the historic district, which we found to have many things of interest all within walking distance of each other.

 

Houses and more houses.  This last one was a Bed and Breakfast.

A Methodist Church

A Catholic Church

 An Episcopal Church
All pre Civil War era with an extensive cemetery.

Leaving this historic area, we went out of town a bit to see a couple homes that were open for tours.

The grounds and furnished rooms of the Rosedown Plantation were awesome.  It was nice to be able to go through all of the rooms.

If I knew how to bring in other pictures that flipped over on their sides when uploaded, and make them right side up, you would get to see more.  Sorry, but I really am having difficulties working Blogger with their new changes!!

The Myrtles Plantation house that we saw next was a little disappointing as we were only able to look into two rooms and could only take pictures of the central hall.  The rest of the house was a Bed & Breakfast, so was off limits to us.  They told a story of ghosts which are supposed to have caused the marking in the mirror in the hall.  You can see what they are claiming to be caused by ghosts, as they have had it taken apart and resilvered several times.  But it always comes back.  Anyway, they told interesting ghost stories.

This is a picture of the mirror which is one of my pictures flipped over!!  The marking that you see at the bottom center is what they tell as being caused by the ghost.  You also see my reflection while Gary took the picture.

Myrtles Plantation house





After these tours we stopped at a local Pizza Restaurant where the police and park rangers were hanging out.  We figured that the food must be good, right?  And we were correct. 

Now back to the motorhome.  We really did not see much of the Mississippi River, so did not get any good pictures.  We will do that another day for a side trip, but not this year.

I will try to get you another Blog of our stay in Mississippi before we show you what we have done while in Pensacola FL.  We arrived in Florida for the purpose of my spending time with my brother while my sister made another trip to Ohio to catch up on some personal things and to see some of her children and grandchildren and friends.  I felt she needed a break, but I'm not sure how much of a break it is, as she has sure kept busy.  So you can see there is not much break to it!!  We will be trading state locations next week since I also have appointments in Ohio.

Come back soon and God Bless!

LAKE CHARLES LOUISIANA

April 9, 2012

Ugh!!!  Blogger has changed their format!!!  I sure am lost, since I am not one to adjust well to change when something took so long to master in the first place.  But I will blunder along and hope that you can follow.  Woe is me!!

Leaving Texas behind, it was great to be in a greener envioronment for a change.  We stopped in a casino parking lot in Kinder, Louisiana on Saturday and then went to a local Methodist church on Easter Sunday.  Returning to the motorhome we decided that there was enough to see in the area to move into their Coushata RV Resort.  It was very nice and clean with many Chalets (park models) as rentals and nice concrete pads for us full-timers.

On Monday we decided to drive back to Lake Charles to find out what the Visitors Center would tell us of local interests.  Brochures in hand, we went on to check out the oldest Catholic Church in the city.

We then saw the Historic Courthouse, going on to the Historic City Hall which has been turned into an Art Gallery. 

The week we were there they had an awesome display of Gerry Wubbon's pencil drawings, several which were four by eight feet.  Yes, that was feet, they were done in two by four feet sections!  Those were parents or relatives of his and people of interest.  And yes, I did say AWESOME!

Opps, here is one of those glitches!! This photo of his brochure was upright in my photo program and upright in my file folder, but when I moved it from there into Blogger it came over like this.  I don't know how to correct the issue, but I guess that you can see his quality of work.   By time we looked at all of the art on display in addition ot Wubben's, our day was over.  So back to the motorhome we go and will take another trip the next day in the opposite direction from the campground.  So stay with us!!