Today was a travel day. We have enjoyed the area around Alexandria and Natchitoches since the food was great, the people were friendly and the scenery is magnificent even though the place is basically flat and does not drain well. There is a remarkably high number of single-wide trailers with fuzz on the outside and an abundance of broken stuff in the yard. I didn’t even think they made single-wides anymore but this place proved me wrong. Maybe it is just that all single-wides come here to die and they are doing a bang-up job. We hunkered down in our trailer through nearly 7 inches of rain the other night, a condition the locals refer to as a frog strangler. We also learned another local word, bullfuzzle, which apparently means bullshit. The place is terrific.
As we disconnected from the utilities today, I found a cute little frog in our electrical pedestal where he had climbed in order to avoid being drowned the other night. He was firmly clinging to the male end of our electrical umbilical and he did not want to leave.
We traveled around 100 miles east through some flooded terrain (swamp) but emerged into flat farmland near Vidalia. Vidalia is located directly on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi across from Natchez, Mississippi. We pulled into the River View RV Park and were surprised to find that we had a terrific spot in the front row, looking out on the Mississippi River and the considerable barge and riverboat traffic doing their commerce stuff. Many rafts of barges consist of eight or more individual barges tied together and pushed up- or downriver by massive tugs. The boats pushing the clusters of barges make a low rumbling sound as they pass. The riverboats have paddlewheels, similar to a lot of technology we have seen in this region.
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