March 11- Shreveport LA. The other other LA. Like Lower Alabama, like Louisiana.....its a semantics thing. It was a real nice spring day as we left the capitol, I dropped the roof on the car and let the wind and sun bathe us. We drove a piece down the Natchez Trace, its a historic trail that leads from Jackson Mississippi to Natchez. We had the road pretty much to ourselves and it was lovely.

We drove west into the sunset with hundreds of big rigs all shiny and yakking it up on the CB. A crop dusting plane made its passes nearby swooping low like it was going to crash and then pulling up into the sky. Just as dusk fell we arrived in Shreveport. We are no longer in the deep south. This is the south ...just plain south. We were a bit disappointed that the river boats have turned into a bunch of cheesy gambling joints permanently anchored in one spot. See, the only way to have a legal casino here is to have it "on water", so they just park the boats :(. Our new favorite station, The Weather Channel, says its getting even warmer tomorrow. That should make it easier to find diamonds in the diamond mine...

March 96 Trip