After the big three of San Antonio, Austin and Houston, we moved into Louisiana (state 6). We stayed in a casino car park just over the border! We had to have a bet on the slot machines each time we went to the toilet!
Then the heavens opened over night. The next day felt really fresh, but it was super dark and the rain continued as we carried on driving. It was difficult to drive in such heavy rain and we could see the exits off the freeways getting flooded and cars being abandoned, so we stopped up for the night in Lake Charles. We did stop on the way in Sulphur in a real local place for a gumbo-ey pork with yams and sweet beans, very Louisianan.
We chilled in a suite apartment over night, we even turned the telly on for the first time to watch the weather channel!
Thankfully the weather had improved by the next day, so we had a look at the 'gators in Cameron Prairie Refuge:
We enjoyed the drive towards New Orleans, looking at all the flooding:
We stayed in Lafayette KOA campground, playing retro games in their games room and crazy golf.
We had a super nice brekkie in French Press in downtown Lafayette, celebrating Selina's birthday. We had proper gumbo and granola. Then it was on to Nawlins to meet Sara.........
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