Our ceremony in Gueydan to become honorary citizens was brief and to the point. We posed for a photo with the mayor, Bob Hensgens, while he handed us our Gueydan lapel pins and our honorary citizens certificates. We had a few minutes to chat with Bob, and before he left he let us know that …
July 9th, 2008 Getting Here Our day of arrival in Gueydan was really memorable. We awakened by 5:30 or before, as we had to load Lee’s truck and be on our way with Lee to meet Elray for breakfast at CCs at 6:30. We had stayed up much too late, as usual, getting things done, …
July 6th, 2008 With our preparations for leaving Abbeville pretty complete, we hung out with Fred on Sunday, watching him do our famous kickstands, and add a GPS to his ultralight. Kevin came by with a buddy, and they went up for several flights. Chelsea went up with Fred to take photos of Kevin’s plane …
July 6th, 2008 As always, the bikes and trailers are an integral part of our experience. They are our lifeline to our adventures. And just like our adventures, the experience with the bikes is always unfolding. Bikes We are getting more and more comfortable with our REI Safari bikes. The best part about them is …
Sheila’s family Sheila’s extended family held a big family party for the 4th of July out at one cousin’s house just outside Rayne LA. They had an awesome set-up – an above-ground swimming pool, a separate tent for the barbecuing, a covered car port for the food and chairs, out of the sun, and a …
After all the wandering, and after saying our farewells to Melissa, Ernesto gave us a ride back to Abbeville. We took that opportunity to quiz him about Peru. He told us that his sister, much to his amazement, had recently chosen to go to Colombia on holiday. He couldn’t understand why she would want to, …
We were so wound up after the zydeco dancing breakfast that we needed to walk around and cool off, literally and metaphorically. It’s a good thing that Breaux Bridge is such a fun place – we had a good choice of nice quiet air-conditioned stores to wander around. Our favorites were the antique stores. They …
On our way to Broussard originally, we had written to another couchsurfing host in Lafayette, Ernesto, hoping to stay with him after Broussard (thinking that we would only be in Broussard a night). We never heard from Ernesto, but it didn’t matter since we had gone to the airfield and Abbeville. About 2 weeks after …
June 27th, 2008 A chronic issue for us on the trip is getting decent haircuts. First is finding someone to do it, and next is hoping that it turns out okay, and third is paying for it. I was so frustrated in December of 2007 when I was in Santa Ynez, California, that I asked …
Abbeville Abbeville is a fun and lively town, for only having a population of about 12,000 people. As is true of many communities around here, Abbeville is growing after Hurricane Katrina, when so many were displaced from New Orleans. Many locally consider Abbeville and not Lafayette, a much larger town to the north, to be …
