One day from Roswell

We were up an eating by 7:45. We finished carrying our items (including the frozen crawfish and boudin in the motel freezer) to the car and on the road by 8:30. We drove around Lafayette to Highway 90 and headed south. The road was 4 lane and we missed most of the small towns, making the trip miss the purpose: seeing the swamps and small towns in the south part of Louisiana. We did have a pleasant drive and went to the welcome center in Houma but never actually made it to the town itself. We stopped for fuel outside New Orleans and ate lunch there. We are still eating half sandwiches that Evelyn made in Weslaco. It has prevented our overeating as much as before. We then whizzed through N. O. without much trouble. We did slow down once. We made it over Lake Ponchatrain after driving through some of the areas devastated by hurricane Katrina years ago. Many of the properties are still in bad disrepair. We had never seen the area before. We were on I-59 and in Hattiesburg by 3, so I went to the motel and asked if we could go on to Meridian. They said yes and called reservations in for us. We were in our room by 4:30 about 70 miles closer to Roswell. We took a walk around the motel area but disagreed on the safety of the route. This caused us to separate. I continued while Evelyn went to an exercise room. I went to a convenience store and bought her a Marie Calendar dinner and an ice cream bar. I went to the room and ate the leftover casserole we had brought and some of the okra we had brought. I put the frozen food into the freezer in the motel (LaQuinta again) across the hall. We stayed in for the night because there was no place for us to walk to. Evelyn talked with Stacy about our location, and I talked with Doris in Cypress Meadows about having our water reconnected.