Day 10
Everything started out well this morning, except Geri was grumpy again about not sleeping well and feeling cold. I got the phony paper as soon as I got up, got my breakfast, and Don took me for an early walk down to the river. I found a great stick, and chewed up most of it. I spied a pair of white geese in a pen, and I decided to put a little scare into them; I charged at the pen, and they honked and flapped their wings, like I was about to eat them. Ha Ha! When we got back to the rig, Geri and Don started to get us ready to move. Don did another tank dump, which I stayed away from, but I helped him hook up the truck. We headed out pretty early, and turned east on Highway 10 again. Pretty soon, there was some highway construction and we had to take a detour. Somehow, we got on the wrong road and started wandering around in a town called Bay City. We stopped at a Fire and Rescue Department station, because Geri said we needed rescuing. She went in and got some directions from the rescue people, and came back and told Don where to go. We were on our way again, but when Don got to the onramp for Highway 147 North, he went by it, saying we wanted 147 South. We made a U-turn and headed down 147 South. Geri was really telling Don where to go. After a few miles, Don got off the highway and pulled into a small service station, which we almost completely filled. We were low on fuel, he said. Geri said he was low on something else. While he was filling the tank, he talked to a guy at the next pump about how to get back to Highway 10. The guy told him to take 147 North to connect directly with 10. When Don finished fueling, he got back aboard and said something I don’t think I ever heard before. “Geri, I’m sorry, you were right.” Geri made him repeat it. I smiled. We got back on 147 North, and soon we were back on the 10, breezing east again.
We made a stop when we entered Louisiana at a rest area and tourist information office. It was really pretty, with lots of grass and a lake. I got some business taken care of, and had a couple of nice rolls in the grass. About ninety miles later, we pulled into an RV Park called Frog City. I didn’t see any frogs, but Geri and I found out about crawdads; they don’t really live in the water, they build little houses out of mud near where the water is. We didn’t see any, but we did see their houses. We had to get into the truck and go into Lafayette to find the Verizon store, because Don said that their cheap doo-doo modem was non-functional, which is why we haven’t been able to post the blog for a couple of days. We had to wait for almost two hours while they worked on it, well past my meal time. Anyway, they fixed it and Don was happy. We went home had dinner, posted the blog, and went to bed.