LOL! Well, if you couldn't live in TX, LA, MS, or AL...y'all certainly couldn't live down here with us in sunny humid Florida! Heat, humidity, bugs, weeds, sweat, alligators, snakes, spiders, hurricanes...but lots of ocean and beach, cool natural springs, great food, theme parks (if you're into that sort of thing), no state income tax, and plenty of 2nd Amendment freedoms. We get a few months every year of beautiful cool weather, but otherwise thank goodness for A/C!
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LOL! Well, if you couldn't live in TX, LA, MS, or AL...y'all certainly couldn't live down here with us in sunny humid Florida! Heat, humidity, bugs, weeds, sweat, alligators, snakes, spiders, hurricanes...but lots of ocean and beach, cool natural springs, great food, theme parks (if you're into that sort of thing), no state income tax, and plenty of 2nd Amendment freedoms. We get a few months every year of beautiful cool weather, but otherwise thank goodness for A/C!
Watching On Patrol Live cured me of ever wanting to go there...what a mess. And a few other places as well.
My "LA" time is limited to spending a month or so at the SAC NCO Academy in Shreveport and during the second grade when my family stopped in NO for a couple days on a trip to Mexico ('58?). My folks introduced me to Bourbon Street. The sights a second grader could see! I had cool parents.
smoothshooter
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Fond Memories From Mississippi & Louisiana
Tech school in Biloxi, Miss. and traveling the 90 miles to New Orleans for our weekends was a new & fun experience. Also enjoyed the Baton Rouge Symposium, Charlie Sides & I traveled for that memorable experience together. RIP Charlie!
Tech school in Biloxi, Miss. and traveling the 90 miles to New Orleans for our weekends was a new & fun experience. Also enjoyed the Baton Rouge Symposium, Charlie Sides & I traveled for that memorable experience together. RIP Charlie!
When I was about eighteen, I had a girlfriend from Morgan City.
I'm from the swamplands of Georgia and I couldn't understand a word she said.
The things we do for love......to quote 10cc.
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I'm from the swamplands of Georgia and I couldn't understand a word she said.
The things we do for love......to quote 10cc.
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40 some years ago I went to Dulac La. with a crew to retube a boiler in a fish plant. From the end of January to the middle of March. It was a terrible stinking place. We stayed at a little motel with a front porch. Sitting outside one night a hooker on roller skates came by looking for work. I do remember the food being pretty good.
Hooker on roller skates? That's different.
DWalt
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Went to the Lafayette gulf coast offshore oil show once, back around the early 1980s. It could just as easily been called the offshore hooker convention. They were everywhere, and business was good. But I saw none on roller skates.
Spent a lot of time in Houma, Dulac, and Morgan City, but I don’t remember any hookers there. My company had an offshore service point in Dulac, and I usually stayed in the bunkhouse there instead of a motel. Not that there is a lot of choice in Dulac. At the time there was very little there. Houma was bigger and better. That was where many offshore rig helicopter services were based.
Spent a lot of time in Houma, Dulac, and Morgan City, but I don’t remember any hookers there. My company had an offshore service point in Dulac, and I usually stayed in the bunkhouse there instead of a motel. Not that there is a lot of choice in Dulac. At the time there was very little there. Houma was bigger and better. That was where many offshore rig helicopter services were based.
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It could just as easily been called the offshore hooker convention.
So, what color did you get?
So, what color did you get?
mmaher94087
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"Fort Polk La...Nuff said??" My father, a Geologist, was instrumental in draining the swamp and drilling water wells for the fort. He called it 'The armpit of America'.
CAJUNLAWYER
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First of all, do NOT let anyone hear you call it "St. Martin's Parish." It's ST. MARTIN PARISH. Next, if your wife is truly from the Cecelia-Breaux Bridge area (which she obviously is since nobody not from there even knows Cecelia exists
)then ask her about "Red's Levee Bar" in Henderson-next to the levee. You can't just go there without someone with you to do the introductions! If you want to run for office in an area that includes any St. Martin Parish precincts a stop at Red's is an absolute must. If they don't like you, you ain't gonna carry St. Martin
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Of all the major cities I have ever visited foreign and domestic the only one I have any interest in ever revisiting is New Orleans, I have only been there pre Mardis Gras in early January on about three occasions and every time it was a real treat. I can't put my finger directly on what it is that makes this place so special, I know that the local people I met were all very genuine and friendly. The food is amazing and the weather at that time of year terrific compared to the frozen North. I think its the people more than anything else. I developed an interest in Abita Bier also.
Been to NOLA a few times, primarily to visit the French Quarter for nice dinner. Enjoyed my stay.
DWalt
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Lots of choices available in make, model, and color, but I am allergic to S&G. I did attend with a co-worker and he indulged. As I remember, there were many interesting hospitality suites in the hotel. I do remember that Edwin Edwards was there, running for Governor. I think I may have shaken hands with him.
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First of all, do NOT let anyone hear you call it "St. Martin's Parish." It's ST. MARTIN PARISH. Next, if your wife is truly from the Cecelia-Breaux Bridge area (which she obviously is since nobody not from there even knows Cecelia exists
You are so right about Cecilia. If you are not from there or have family people likely wonder...where? Let my better half get a few shots of her preferred alcoholic drink in her and she calls it Saint Marrin. Her drink of choice is Wild Turkey 101. It has been a wonderful ride and a great time with her. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Mexico in the 40s so supper here at times is a Tex-Mex/Cajun fusion at times. Imagine a boil where you get the crawdad, andouille and other and the side is Mexican rice.
I had a childhood friend who moved to Nola when he retired about 5 yrs ago.Haven’t heard a peep since…
I have yet to encounter anyone from Louisiana that I needed a translator app for.
Justin Wilson was a national treasure.
Justin Wilson was a national treasure.
Leslie Sapp
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We went to Dauphin Island a couple of years back for our anniversary. (we generally take a long weekend to somewhere within a few hours of home.)
The culture is best described as: The Apalachicola oystermen have interbred with the Cajuns.
We blended right in.....
Headed back over there soon, gonna go a little farther. Probably wind up in Caj's territory.
The culture is best described as: The Apalachicola oystermen have interbred with the Cajuns.
We blended right in.....
Headed back over there soon, gonna go a little farther. Probably wind up in Caj's territory.
