Florida Spring Training Trip 2016 - Day 57

It was an easy drive today to New Iberia, LA, about 130 miles west of New Orleans.  The weather was sunny and not windy as we worked our way through the bayous and sugar cane fields over mostly elevated roadways and bridges.  We saw an interesting twist on an ambulance-chasing lawyer's billboard ad.  It had the usual big picture of a smiling lawyer, with the message: "Injured? Call....".  The interesting part was the background picture of a burning off-shore oil platform.  I guess there is a different target victim audience in this area. 

We passed through a few towns (Homa, Morgan City, Jenerette, etc.) and a lot of rural areas that looked like places where old single-wide trailers came to die.We also noticed several billboards in one town with the picture of a smiling woman offering free rides to a “gentleman’s club”.  The ad didn’t seem to say anything about a return trip however.

The only glitches involved the GPS.  I had the wrong destination in when we left the RV park, but luckily we were going in the right direction when I noticed the error.  When we arrived in New Iberia, the GPS couldn't find the RV park despite having the right address loaded.  It was one of those RV Park issues where the park entry location is different from the physical address.  It also didn't help that the road into the park is from a frontage road that our GPS sometimes has problems dealing with. After an attempted loop by the GPS we stopped and called the park to get directions the old fashioned way.

The park is O.K. and the people are nice.  We arrived around 12:00 pm and rested through the afternoon.  We are going out to dinner tonight at a Cajun/Creole place where the locals go.  The park lady recommended it and suggested that we not bother to dress up.  It sounds like the kind of place where you don't get a glass with your beer (even the ladies) unless you ask for one.

We have a lot planned for tomorrow:  a visit to Avery Island nearby to tour the Tabasco Factory, drive through the co-located Jungle Gardens and Bird City and visit and tour the 100-year-old Konriko Rice Mill in New Iberia. If we have any energy left, we may also visit the Bayou Teche Museum, also in New Iberia.