Driving Across Louisiana

We left New Orleans and headed north diagonally across Louisiana , a big state. It took us 2 hours to climb out of the swamps and bayous along the coast. Although still very flat, the land started to show low rolling hills. It reminded us a lot of interior Alabama, cattle farms, sugar cane, pine forests, lots of churches, small neat farm towns, friendly polite people. Our destination was a cottage on a 1000 acre farm close to the Oklahoma border and Texas. Our gracious host provided us with snacks and even invited us to breakfast in her house, Southern hospitality at its best. A new solar system provides power much like ours in Vermont. Her flat fields looked like good hay. Karen made friends with Alma the cat.