Some of you that regularly visit Ginny’s face book page already know that we have settled in Southern Louisiana for the winter. We found a nice park on the East side of Lake Charles. The park is far enough out of downtown and off the main roads that it is very quiet. Most of the residents are local workers and we hardly ever see them.
We have started to learn the main roads and Ginny can now find her way to the thrift stores, fabric stores and JC Penny. So she is feeling good about the area now. Lake Charles, the lake, is a shipping port to the Gulf of Mexico. Even though the Calcasieu River runs into it, it is brackish water (salt and fresh). It is amazing to me that the salt water and tides would affect a lake this far away from the Gulf. Our elevation is only about 5 feet so that probably has some influence.
Hurricane season is over for now and the weather has been very mild. Eventually it will get to near freezing but we had that in New Mexico and Texas last winter too. In fact it was colder there than it was in Oregon several times.
Well unless we win a state lottery or catch a state record fish there probably won’t be much going on, on the blog. Keep up with Ginny’s adventures in shopping on her face book page if you want and we’ll let you know when we are back on the road.
Until then, stay warm and healthy.
Charlie
