Old Fools Journal: Road Trip of sorts

Today was go home day for the Princess. She did well and I must say a lot better than myself. So we had a little road trip and I am blue again. I don't understand all the social obligations she has there with her dad and his family. I don't think she does either but I think he is trying to give her a family life the best he can and I think he is doing a good job. He is so much easier to deal with than her mother. He can actually plan ahead and then keep to the plan. She is to return for another week on July 10th. Between now and then there are trips to everywhere including Disney World in Orlando. (What recession?) She won't exactly be suffering. Grandma and I, on the other hand, have to put all her stuff away until she returns. Oh yeah, and deal with the empty spot. We are paying for the sins we committed against our grandparents.
My auto carriage, which I thought was on it's last legs, performed flawlessly. I didn't get a low oil pressure light until I got home. It's amazing what a little maintenance will do. It's only 22 years old but acts a lot older. The only part I really care about is the air conditioning. It was 96 degrees in some places I went today and It ain't a dry heat whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

We did the transfer of the precious cargo at a Louisiana welcome center at the intersection of La641 and Highway 61.This walkway was there and said to me "come". It's like the "Yellow Brick Road" and I was compelled. It is a tiny little piece of property with the office in a house built in 1830 that was moved here. I wonder how many hurricanes that house has seen. I loved it and it's better than what I live in.

It is all arranged in the "Disneyland" illusion of lots of space and distance but this walk was probably not more than 600 feet. I loved it just the same. It takes you away from the highway and into the swamp momentarily. How nice.
Ending here. It was 93 degrees and humid so I did not hang around.




I found this delicious looking morsel in the grass there. It was about 3 inches long and a little dead. It looked too crunchy to eat. There were lots of crows around and I am surprised they had not spotted it.




There are lots of bridges here. Without them we could not move more than a few feet in any direction. This part of the world is mostly water. This is the Veterans bridge across the Mississippi.View from the top. What a great place to have a soap box derby (as if anyone knows what that is any more).