Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Louisiana Good Eats?

Jan 26/16  Weather - 90% chance of rain today, high of 60, low of 41  in Lafayette, Louisiana.  Once again we joined the 2:30 club.   Off the road and found a pull thru site at the KOA Lafayette
Billy felt like driving farther but with the rain persistent most of the day he gave in easily when I suggested we stop for the day.
2 lanes going both ways in Mobile tunnel
When you enter Mobile, Alabama from the East side you immediately go through the tunnel.
inside the tunnel at Mobile
It seems so much brighter and cleaner to us than the Detroit/Windsor tunnel.  Motoring on we passed through Mississippi, bypassing New Orleans on Interstate 12 and then back onto interstate 10 again we spotted the Louisiana state sign.

Welcome to Louisiana
 At this exact moment we had on our Sirius radio channel Margaritaville listening to Jimmy Buffett singing "Louisiana"!!!!!   Now is that a good travel omen??  We think so.

Mild Boudin on the left, Cracklin in the middle, spicy boudin on the right
Next door to the KOA was an eatery that I just had to find out about.  Billy's Boudin.  What is boudin??  Wikipedia says~ A white sausage made of pork without the blood. Pork liver and heart meat are typically included. In Cajun versions, the sausage is made from a pork rice dressing (much like dirty rice), which is stuffed into pork casings.  What have we got to loose?  We have to try it right?    And later we get a sampling of crawfish too.  
This is the leftover part,   I ate the meat out of the tail. 

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