Cajun Country

Rice Growing in Western Louisiana

 We finally left Texas and soon entered the Cajun Country, west of New Orleans.  The area is comprised of prairie like terrain where cattle are raised and rice is grown and well as marshes and swamps.  A huge attraction for me is the regional food, unusual cooking ingredients and techniques.  A whole blog will cover that.

Palmetto State Park

We drove to see the newest State Park, Palmetto Island, a beautiful but somewhat remote park.  I kept a close watch on Raggie after seeing the sign about gators.


It took me several hours to go through brochures with attractions and look at maps to begin to narrow what we want to see.  There is so much of interest.  I will do a special blog on food since that interests me a great deal and this is an area of great regional specialty.