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. 

Jan 12 - The sites around Mobile & Gulf Shores, Alabama

Weather  Sunny but cool about 60 - 65, couldn't resist to go riding.
We had a misconception about this area and Mobile we did not expect it to be as nice as it is and the downtown area we went through had beautiful old antebellum homes. 

The two big attractions are the USS Alabama Battleship which is docked in the bay for visiting and the Bellingrath Gardens and Home.  Both are pretty cool.  The battleship is from World War II and talking to some current military men it is small compared to the ones out there now.... the US doesn't fool around when it comes to fighting.  The gardens are at their off season but being a lover of flowers I talked Billy into going. 

The Camellia's were blooming and as tall as trees, lovely old property - the owner was a prosperous fellow from bottling Coca Cola.  And then there is the shrimp and oysters!  We found a local fishery that looked like it was falling down, but had everything you could imagine for sale and caught that morning.

We bought a pound of shrimp and boiled them in beer, bayleaf, parsley, garlic and thyme!!!!   Oh and yes I ate the raw oysters for lunch!

Mmmmmm good eatin. A.J. you would love this fresh seafood, I have to eat it all by myself, you know how much Billy loves seafood!
We had some damage to a topper awning over our slide during a wind storm one night so we headed down to the Gulf Shores State Park to stay for a week or until Camping World could get our replacement in.   Up till now we have not experienced any State or National Parks so we are anxious to see what it is like.  Sites are huge and it was redone after Hurricane Ivan so they now have all the hookups at each site, new rec center, and even WiFi....  wow not really roughing it.  We are now hooked up to Dish Network Satellite so the lack of tv cable is not a problem.  Dish has a pay as you go monthly plan for RV's and it suits our needs perfectly. 
Check out this cool retro VW camper...... neat.