The day started normally, coffee, oatmeal, and packing up, and then we started biking out of Chicot SP. The way out is actuallu through the park so we had a nice ride through a luscious forest on a quiet paved road. And then we saw our first alligator! The road went over a bridge, over a bayou with trees growing in the water, with cranes, turtles and yes, alligaors! I'm glad I didn't know about the alligators before we went to bed.
The excitement continued when we went to the small town post office just outside the park to send our cold weather gear back home. When I put my gear on the counter, I felt a sting and all of a sudden there was a huge caterpillar sitting on the counter next to my gear. It must have hitched a ride from the camp ground. The lady at the post office was as surprised as I was. She said it was a stinging caterpillar, and seemed surprised I'd never seen one before.
Now we are eating chinese food in a small town the road. Its takeout only, but they set up a table so we could eat inside (in the air conditioning). We must look weird to the other customers coming in for pickup.
Its not even noon and we've already seen so much and met so many people!
Heidi, Heidi, Heidi.
ReplyDeleteWe were eating Louisiana food, cooked by a Vietnamese couple, who had also traveled to China. We weren't eating "Chinese" food!
Makes me think of that George Thorougood song
The one that goes somethin' like
"I met a German girl in England
When I was goin' to school in France
Said 'We danced in Mississippi
At an Alpha Kappa dance'
It wasn't me
No no child
It wasn't me!"
Now if I had more than this phone I might just pull that song up and crank the volume, just a little bit, I swear.