Jacqueline’s Jaunts

17 April 2025, New Orleans Resort and Marina, Louisiana Jeeps – 3 We slept in this morning, then went outside to see if I could locate a vocal cardinal and he was in the trees in front of our site. I watched a mama duck take her babies across the pond and saw a Green Heron for the first time. This KOA, Lafayette KOA Holiday, is one of my favorite KOAs we have stayed at. Below is a photo from the KOA site and the arrow shows where we camped.  Beautiful KOA park, one of my favorites Jan made us yummy biscuits. After breakfast, we started getting ready for our drive to New Orleans. We are excited about this stop. We are staying for four nights.  The four-hour drive was beautiful on I-10. We crossed long bridges over waterways. I tried to see if I could see any alligators, but no luck.  You can see the water between the lanes We saw many crawfish farms. You could tell by the red balls floating on top across large bodies of water. Everything is so green and all the trees are l...

16 April 2025, Lafayette KOA Holiday Jeeps-2 Happy Morning!! Someone came home to the dog!!! I feel so much better. I sat out front for a while, bird-watching and recording birds. There were many birds until the lawnmower started. Oh well...it’s 9:00 AM, so at least they waited until then. I recorded the birds in my bird book and prepared for the day.  This morning, I was looking at the RV park map and discovered a cemetery at the back of the park. This park has 421 sites and the back is the newer section. Barry went to turn in the key card to the gate and found out the original homesteaders, Tompkins, are buried there. I decided to take a field trip and drive to see it. We walked past it last night but didn’t see it since it was dark.  The small circle on the left is our campsite. The larger circle on the right is the cemetery. On the drive today to Louisiana, I checked Find A Grave and found the information for this cemetery, starting with Memorial ID: 53815860. There are a ...