We had a fantastic travel day! We had been concerned with the severe weather forecasts but we never encountered any bad weather. We did hit some heavy rain that lasted for maybe 2 minutes but other than that there were no other problems. Whew! As we traveled along I couldn’t help but notice something that I’ve noticed before when we travel. Many, many names of things have Native American names… rivers, towns, streets, etc… Generally speaking I don’t normally think of that but each time we travel about I seem to notice it. In our travels today I saw a lot of long words with the letters X and Q in them. I am always intrigued by names of places. We have stopped for the night in Livingston, Louisiana at a very nice campground. We thought it was funny that we stopped in Livingston since next we will be stopping in Livingston, Texas. Livingston, LA is in the Baton Rouge area. One our way here we first stopped at a State Park but it has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Part of it was open but you could still see so much damage. It was on the gulf and had standing water in the camp area that was open. It was packed with campers though. The one spot they said was large enough for our RV was not and it was full of standing water anyway so we opted not to stay there. they certainly had packed the RV’s in there. I guess since most of the campground was closed from Katrina this was all they could use so they crammed them in tightly. Glad we drove thru just to see the damage left behind but even more glad we didn’t stay there. Here are a couple of photos I took from the truck today during our traveling. One is of a large bridge we drove over and the other is of the Louisiana swamp. Oh, and one more thing that I should have written about in the last post… on Friday just as we were about to leave on our trip I happened to look down and right at my feet I saw a 4 leaf clover! I couldn’t believe it. I have rarely ever found one but the few I have found have been just like this time, just a glance and there it was. I have spent hours looking and never found one but the times I have found them it has been like a neon sign. So it was Friday the 13th (a day I consider a lucky day myself) and I had found a 4 leaf clover… LUCK was surely going to be with us on the trip!
