Parkside RV Broussard,LA (3/19-3/21)

Today we are leaving Florida for the first time in the last 5 months. We arrived in Florida on October 15 and we left today. We are headed west, first we passed through Alabama. There we crossed under the mobile river through a huge tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel, we were able to see the USS Alabama sitting in Mobile Bay. We only crossed 60 miles of Alabama and then we were into Mississippi. there’s not much really exciting in Mississippi, after 75 miles we crossed into Louisiana.

Louisiana uses the term "parish" instead of "county" due to its historical ties to the Catholic Church during the French and Spanish colonial periods, where local governance was organized around church parishes. This system was officially adopted in 1807 and has remained unique to Louisiana, reflecting the state's distinct cultural heritage. That’s a pretty long time to keep using the word parish instead of county.

In Louisiana, we crossed the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge which is approximately 18.2 miles long, making it one of the longest bridges in the United States. It carries Interstate 10 traffic over the Atchafalaya Basin. We crossed the Mississippi. Once we hit Lafayette, we headed south a little bit to our campsite for the next few days.Read more