Also take at look at
New Orleans post-Katrina
Louisiana is home to bayous, crawdads, elegance
and music. We visited Shreveport, Nachitoches and Lafayette
as well as New Orleans. Each town is different but they
are still identifiably, Louisiana.
The South shall rise again!
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Shreveport skyline from a local park.
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Joe's Crab shack - "Crabs are free tomorrow".
An institution on the Shreveport riverwalk.
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BassPro - what an American institution. The complete
hunting, fishing and outdoor store. They were all over the
south of the States.
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Inside the store. Huge and Comprehensive.
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Instore decorations were very impressive.
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As were the rows and rows of weapons and ammunition!!!
We Aussies were a bit 'shell-shocked'.
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The Riverwalk in Shreveport
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Shreveport has many Casinos - many moored in the river
like this one. Apparently it had something to do with the
legality of casinos on shore.
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The Memorial to Policeman who have dies on duty - still
in Shreveport.
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Michael wandering along Front Street in Nachitoches.
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Cane River Lake - don't ask why the name!!! It must be
a Southern thing!
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Elegant seats along the Front Street promenade of Nachitoches.
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Dwyer's Cafe in Lafayette - it is very famous as a haunt
of musicians.
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A little ol' shack in Bayou country.
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Bayou near Lafayette.
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Another part of the Bayou. And, No! We didn't see any 'gators.
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More of the bayou - this is not lovely green grass but
a mossy top of the swamp.
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This is called the Bayou Folly. A strange house set among
the trees and swamp.
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