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Yesterday we drove from somewhere to somewhere else. I cant keep track. Ok, it was at a rest stop in southeast-ish Oklahoma and at a hotel in Monroe, Louisiana. It was a lovely drive and I’m enchanted by the south altogether so far. We stopped off at a dam and saw a sign about alligators being around. For some reason Amy wouldn’t let me near the water. How little trust! We headed toward New Orleans, our destination for the night. We stopped by another lake in Louisiana to stretch and relax a little. The water here is nothing like the lakes in Washington. You get in the water and it’s warmer than the air. Crazy, seeing as the air is 90 degrees or so. We swam for a wee bit and decided that we had to head on. It was, after all, getting to be around 5 or 6pm or so and we had a long drive to get to New Orleans. As we were leaving, our car decided to throw a tantrum and made some scraping noises. We looked at it there and saw nothing, but soon noticed that, oh, we have no power steering or A/C. Great. We headed to the nearest large city in order to get a repair shop. Seeing as it was Sunday, nothing was open, so we got a hotel in Monroe. $60 seemed like a lot of money compared to the $0 we spend every time we sleep in the car. We got it worked on today at a dealership- it was just a belt of some sort that had broke. The people there were some of the friendliest I’ve met. Amy loves their accent. In fact it seems to be the thing she loves most about this area.
We made it to just outside New Orleans tonight, after touring Start, La and Star, Mississippi (I cant remember it’s abbreviation) – the hometowns of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. (Start, an pretty empty town with nothing in it, was one of the most exciting things for Amy on this whole trip. She loves Tim McGraw that much.) This hotel is even more expensive than last night, but it’s totally worth it to have internet, right? Yeah.
Well, I’m out for tonight. We have pictures on the photobucket account from the last few days (I’m not sure if we’ll get the ones from today up or not)
Out,
Laura
2 comments:
Did Amy talk in an accent?
Silly Amy, as if the alligators would hurt you. They were probably just waiting to serve as stepping stones. That sounds so cool- I want to swim in a warm lake! It’s good that you were able to get the car fixed. I’m glad the whole Tim McGraw thing worked out for you, after all.
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