Today we're headed to North Louisiana through Concordia and Tensas Parishes. The day will be spent mostly driving with a few stops. The plan is to stay the night at Lake Bruin State Park before moving on to Day 6. As you know by now, we're also stopping for photo ops at each parish courthouse. You can follow this link HERE to see a list of the parishes. Just click on Concordia and then Tensas to see the courthouse buildings for those parishes.
The Red Zone:
The Itinerary:
Concordia Parish Courthouse
The Delta Museum, 218 Louisiana Avenue, Ferriday, La
Jefferson Parish Courthouses (Old & New)
Jean Lafitte National Park, 6588 Barataria Blvd, Marrero, LA
Either Rent A Canoe at Bayou Barn or go for an Airboat Ride at Airboat Adventures
Plaquemines Parish Courthouse
Fort Jackson, 220 Herbert Harvey Drive, Buras, La
And that's it for today. We now head back home or get a Hotel Room in/near Chalmette and prep for Day 4 where we'll spend time in St. Bernard and Orleans Parishes.
Here's Day 2 of the Great Louisiana Road Trip. Today we'll visit sites in East and West Feliciana as well as East Baton Rouge Parishes. Jump in and ride along! Remember that we plan to visit each parishes courthouse to get a pic but I'm not posting all those pics here. If you want to see them, click HERE.
Today's Red Zone:
The Itinerary:
E. Feliciana Parish Courthouse
Centenary State Historic Site, 3522 College Street, Jackson, LA 70748
W. Feliciana Parish Courthouse
Tour a little bit around St. Francisville
Rosedown State Historic Site, 12501 La. 10, St. Francisville, La
Audubon State Historic Site, 11788 Hwy 965, St. Francisville, La
Cat Island Nature Preserve, Largest Cypress Tree
EBR Parish Courthouse
Trip to top of New State Capitol Building
State Museum, 660 N. 4th Street, Baton Rouge, LA
That's all for Day 2! Now we go home to sleep and rest up for tomorrow's adventures. Get ready to head down South (as if we weren't far enough South as it is)!
So, I had planned out this elaborate Road Trip inside the state lines of Louisiana. The plan was to visit all 64 parishes in the state, get a pic in front of every parish courthouse, visit some sort of tourist attraction whether it be a museum, roadside weirdo attraction, or swamp tour.
Since we are not actually able to do the Road Trip at this time, I'm going to take a Virtual Road Trip and post videos, images, and links to the places we planned to visit. (Here's a link to all the courthouses in the state - HERE)
Here's where we're starting:
The itinerary:
1. Livingston Parish Courthouse, Corner of Poplar and Iowa
2. St.
Tammany Parish Courthouse, 701 N. Columbia St, Covington, LA70433
3. World's Largest Ronald Reagan Statue, Corner of New Hampshire & E. Lockwood, Covington
4. Abita Springs Mystery House, 22275 La 36, Abita Springs, La 70420
5. Bogue Chitto State Park, 17049 St. Park Road, Franklinton, La 70438
6. Washington Parish Courthouse, 908 Washington Street, Franklinton, La
7. Civil War Monument behind the courthouse, where 3 of my ancestors have their names listed.
8. Old Varnado Store Museum, 1041 Cleveland Street, Franklinton, La
9. Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery & Museum, Hwy 51, Amite, La
10. Tangipohoa Parish Courthouse, 110 N. Bay Street, Amite, La
11. St. Helena Parish Courthouse, 369 Sitman Street, Greensburg, La
12. FINAL STOP: Old Jail Museum, Sitman Street, across street from courthouse
And That's it for Day 1 of our Virtual Road Trip! I hope you've enjoyed it so far! Stay tuned for Day 2 where we visit the parishes of East Baton Rouge as well as East and West Feliciana!!
As I was surfing around the net, on my Great Road Trip idea quest, I was thinking about the packing I would need to do for this trip. There will be two adults and two children. I don't believe in packing everything and the kitchen sink when I'm on vacation. I prefer to pack minimally. So, when I stumbled upon The Rocky Burger Run blog I got REAL excited! Mainly because he is traveling and seeing many places I want to see.
"There was also a certain something about not carrying around a suitcase full of
"what ifs" and "maybe I'll need"s. Robert DeNiro's character in Michael Mann's
superb movie Heat evangelises the 'have nothing in your life you
can't leave in 30 seconds flat' philosophy. It's a pretty bleak existence he
finds himself in (aside from the fact he's one of the most wanted thieves in
America), but take away the crook chic and there is a core of a testing
question; What really binds us to places?
What's the stuff that you
really can't live without, the stuff you'd save before yourself if the house was
on fire? Take it a step further and ask, what about the mental baggage we carry
around, those real or imagined grudges, mis-remembered memories, the gossip and
irrelevance it's all too easy to fill social space with. Give yourself a mental
baggage allowance and feel the weight lift!"
Lemme tell ya. I now have a new packing philosophy. If it doesn't fit into ONE plastic Walmart grocery bag, then I don't need it on the vacation plan!
