Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:31 PM 5/11/2004 +0200, you wrote: > > states surprises most people. I live almost two hours from the Arkansas > > Border, and as Tina will tell you, one can drive two hours south of > New Orleans and > > still stay on land. > >I had no idea. But I suppose that I should have. If you can see a little >squiggly piece of land south of New Orleans on a map of the US (really >down to a small scale of course), then that little noodle of land is >probably a pretty big stretch. Well, I guess you could call it land ;-) It's a stretch of very fertile ground between the bayou and the Mississippi that floods with every hurricane. We lived in Buras but you can go even further south until the land runs out in Venice - fondly referred to by the residents as "the armpit of the earth". But they have the best oysters and the best crabs anywhere! Our house was right next to the levee on the Mississippi and the throbbing of the ships as they passed would shake the whole house. It's a different world. I have some old photos I'll have to scan sometime. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com