Lazy buggers!

Uh oh, we have been lazy, no entry for 2 weeks now! Well, we have been travelling a lot, so here's the report:
The stay at Lake Charles was relaxing, not much to do besides using the bikes a lot and going for some longer walks.
From here it's off to New Orleans via Lafayette and a couple of old plantation homes. Lafayette seems nice enough, but it's Sunday morning, so we only fill up on gas and continue to Darrow, close to the first plantation home that we want to visit, Houmas house. On the way there we already come past a couple of smaller, not so well known plantation homes, not open for viewing but still worth a photo from the fence.

Houmas house is really impressive, well kept gardens, one can really imagine life at it was here over a hundred years ago.

For the night we find a nice RV park at another plantation, not so impressive but still quite nice. What all those homes have in common is a more or less impressive alley of live oaks, sometimes 'decorated' with Spanish moss. Looks cool!

The next morning we visit Oak Alley plantation where they have the annual Spring Fair. Lots of food stalls plus some artists displaying the art, some of that not so arty. Reminds us of our youth in Germany when we had our stalls at the markets! On the other hand this fair shows that we are in the provinces, far, far away fro urban life, well, it's actually not that far....

From there it's along the levees to New Orleans. We found a state park close to the city center, just 8 miles from the ferry station Algiers Point - Canal Street/French Quarter.