Keep The Good Times Rolling in Louisiana

  I’ve just returned from a week in the great state of Louisiana where I learned about pinching the head off of crawdads, eating boudin, and that any knowledge I have of the French language does not apply when I am in Cajun country. I visited sugar plantations and Huey Long’s gravesite and the horrible place where people diagnosed with leprosy were confined in this country for more than a century.

  We took an airboat ride in the Atchalafaya Basin – and that’s easier to spell than it is to say – and did a little Fais DoDo with at the famous Blue Moon.

  The folks in Texas say a visit there is like “a whole ‘nother country,” but the same applies in Louisiana.  Lafayette is the heart of Cajun country and Baton Rouge, well, it’s just pretty sassy as well. I loved both communities and am looking forward to getting some stories out there about my experiences.

  But for the moment, let me tell you this – don’t let the oil spill deter you from going to Louisiana or anywhere along the Gulf Coast, if that’s what you were planning for your summer travels. Baton Rouge and Lafayette are hours away from the oil that is just now beginning to touch a bit of shoreline down there, but the panicky nature of human beings has resulted in hundreds of thousands of cancellations in reservations throughout Louisiana.

   The oil spill is a disastrous thing and a few folks with BP should be keel-hauled in an alligator-filled-swamp, but don’t make the folks of Louisiana suffer any more than they already are.  Head south and see what it’s all about. Keep those good times rolling in Louisiana.