Rocky Bayou Redux
We have enjoyed our stay at the Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park so much, that we’ve signed on for another week. So, we’ll be here until March 3rd, when we will start west, stopping in Slidell, Louisiana overnight before arriving at Chicot State Park, in just about the middle of the state. We haven’t been there before, but I expect it is quite a beauty spot, right next to the Louisiana State Arboretum. The only concern I had was whether we can get Verizon Wireless service there. According to their coverage map, there ought to be broadband, but it’s got cross-hatching over that area, and I don’t know what that means. (You can click the map below to see a larger version in a new window/tab.)
Anyway, one of our reasons for dawdling in Florida and Louisiana is to give Dallas a chance to thaw out before we get there. They’ve had a pretty rough winter this year, setting records not just for the amount of snow, but for how long it has stuck around. But by mid-March it ought to be warming up enough for us. Here’s a map with our proposed stop-overs. Again, you can click on it to see a larger version that may be more legible.
That push-pin at Irish Bend-Bayou Teche marks the location of where some of my distant cousins live. Some children of Mary Donelson and John Caffery (parents of my great-great-great-great grandmother, Sarah “Sally” Caffery who married John Walker of Virginia & Missouri) settled there and some of their descendants are still there. While we don’t propose staying there, if I can make contact with them we might take a ride down there one day while we’re in the area. I’d love to see if any of them have more information about Sally Caffery, since I haven’t been able to discover much beyond the fact that she and John Walker lived in Jefferson City, MO when my GGG grandmother, Margaret Courtenay Walker, was born there in 1818.
Anyway, we’re having a good trip so far. I’ve even been keeping up with my school work! I turned in my first project, on digital imaging, a day early this weekend, and feel like it was a good job; I expect to get an A on it. Next assignment is on digital audio, so maybe after learning something about that subject, I’ll start posting audio clips here, or even start a podcast, who knows?
