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| Thought I was in Bristol, I looked around and Bristol was gone. A lot of the old stores//homes were built on the same plans. The twin coke signs were very simular also. I just looked at the map, I was in Bristol. Someone stole Bristol. |
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| Confluences: The Ride |
| Lately I've been starting the rides some- where in their middle. This confuses me and it takes a lot of time to get back on track. That said, I told you I went to Arnaudville. Arnaudville sits on the confluence of Bayou Teche and and Bayou Fuselier. In fact I exited Arnaudville on Bayou Fuselier Road. Oh, is it pretty, though very bumpy at first. Just go slow and look for the dam on the bayou. Fuselier crosses La.93 which goes to Grand Coteau. This is horse country. Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, you name it. Maybe some Mules. I rode up on some riders and they looked like they were having a blast. That kind of fun is contageous. I stopped, raised the camera and they waved. I told them I'd missed the shot and they waved again. Then they started laughing at me. We were all off to a good day. I've got the map program open right now so I'm going to give you the skinny of where I went and how. Well, most of it. I took 93 into Sunset and went north of La. 182 and turned west on Bourbeux and Cretien Pt. Roads. After going past the Plantation I took a right (w) on La.356. which ran into La.95 which goes into and out of Chuchpoint. After riding 95 for a few miles I exited north on La.1106. which hit my old favorite, 358. I left 358 just as it gets good and headed up some parish road that ran into US 190. She steered west on 190 which is newly resurfaced and is no longer the kidney killer it was. I rejoined La. 95 going north into the upper La. Plains. 95 runs into 758 and I went west until hitting 29 and went northeast until I went north on 1163, east on 1165 and west on La.104, the great road between Opelousas and Mamou. Outside of Mamou, I went north on 1161 which runs into La.10 coming out of Ville Platte. I wanted to circumnavigate Ville Platt and I headed up an unnamed road to La 376 turning east. You go through town and get on La.29 exiting town towards Bunkie and pick up 363 on the way out. Go south on it until you get to Washington. The roads I took don't have names. Follow 363 and it will turn into 103 at Grand Prairie. At Washinton go east on La.10 To be continued...... |
| La.356 right after leaving Cretien Point. |
| Out on the prairie Choupique Road leaves 356 in a cloud of dust. Google "choupique". |
| I can send you some green next winter if you'd like. |
| Can't tell you where this one is. Maybe Bristol. |
| La.363 after leaving Ville Platte. |
| Grand Prairie right where 748 meets 363. Cocodrie Country. |
| Not on the Washington Tour Circuit. I've written the Chamber of Commerce and they didn't return my note. This was a big plantation or port deal out here next to Bayou Courtableu. There is sunken machinery, boilers and lots of plumbing stuff. It's right at the park where 103 goes under I-49. Anyone know? A sugar mill? |
| Leaving Washinton on 103, watch for PR4-32 for a look at the old bridge over Bayou Wauksha, to be mentioned later, so freeze that vision. |
| The old trailer is a relic of cotton days. Now sugarcane, next? |
| The arsenal. |
| I hate it. All the old barns are dying. This one was in fine shape last year, I'm sure. This is on 103 going into Port Barre. |
| This is the old station at Pecaniere. I bet you know what that means. La 741 from Port Barre to the intersection with La.31 headed to Arnaudville or Leonville. |
| I just like the house, south of Arnaudville. Check out the clothes line. |
| I crossed over to La.686 where another old station was given up by the "Lubrication" sign. |
| At Nina (Station), south of Henderson on 347, Grand Point Road, a Cajun standard was seen. I've got stories centered around these things. Traditionally, the "ovens" were semi-underground. Hank Williams Jr. sings about "the pig's in the ground, the beers on ice". That pig would be in a Cajun Microwave. If you didn't know what Grand Point Rd was named for, Cecelia was known as Grand Point at one time. Cecelia was named for a the Postmistress. It had been named LaPlace, but that didn't work because there's a La Place north of New Orleans and it confused the mail. I get confused mail all the time. The Postmistress, Cecelia, fixed that. |
| La Poussiere in Breaux Bridge. Now here is tradition. It has been a Sunday afternoon French Music shrine forever. (it means "dust",as in maybe, "to kick up the dust". I don't speak French and that I got off the web) |
| The Site for the South Louisiana Visitor or Native who likes to go out. The picture of Freds is mine. The guy is from NYC, but his info is unending. |
| A nice little house in Breaux Bridge, built in 1906. It survived the flood of 1927. |
| If you've stayed this long, then you get to discover where the lightning stuck, figuratively, of course. |
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