Day 35 - (10/29) Convent, LA

Wednesday - today we drove 186 miles from Sulphur, LA to Convent, LA and checked in at the Poche Plantation and RV Resort. We're 20 minutes from Baton Rouge and from New Orleans.

The trip offered many new sights. One section of I-10 (36 miles) was elevated above a huge swamp, part of the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Area. Here's a view from the car window travelling at 60 mph.

We saw miles of sugar cane fields, many sugar refineries.

The route was I-10 to just west of Baton Rouge, south on LA 1, east on 70 at Donaldsonville, over the Mississippi and south on LA 44 along the river. To our relief, the bridge was MUCH wider than the two we crossed when we came west.

The RV park is beautiful and offers many amenities. The Mississippi River is just beyond a dike across the road from the park. Tugs, tankers and work boats offer periodic horn blasts to remind us they're busy over there.

We attended a buffet dinner hosted by the park and met some very interesting, friendly folks. One man was from Scotland. He is a project engineer working on a new refinery. He had lived in Marysville, OH for 15 years ... what a small world we live in!

Folks down here are McCain supporters and make it well known.