Beaumont, Texas

March 30, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

Denny and I amused ourselves this morning by watching tugboats, barges and freighters moving up and down the Mississippi River - right from our hotel window in downtown Baton Rouge.

Storms were predicted so we headed out of town across the Mississippi, through Louisiana and into Texas. We arrived in Beaumont and made a stop at the gravesite of The Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson). He died, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, in a plane crash in 1959. All three young musicians were just getting started in life. Tragic.

So here we are in Beaumont, Texas. The rain did indeed arrive so we are happy to be high and dry.Read more