Back on the road heading towards Napoleonville, Louisiana where our Cajun friends John & Brenda (aka Brem &Dipper) live. Fascinating to note that diesel in Louisiana is only $1.99 a gallon (compared with £1 a litre back home). Anyway, Dipper has some land in Napoleonville on which is a huge shed where he parks his RV and this is always referred to as 'John's shed' and that is where we parked up for the next few days.
Late in the afternoon, Jeff, Dipper's son, came over and started preparing Jambalaya for the evening meal and then we were joined by Brem & Dipper later.
Late in the afternoon, Jeff, Dipper's son, came over and started preparing Jambalaya for the evening meal and then we were joined by Brem & Dipper later.
Dipper lit a log fire and we sat round it drinking wine and re-living old times. All the while the wind was picking up and after Brem, Dipper & Jeff had left, we watched the TV and found that a tornado was heading our way. John decided we should have an emergency plan and as he felt it would be better to be low on the ground (a motorhome could easily be picked up by the tornado), the plan was that if the worst came to the worst, we would head for the ditch behind John's Shed and lie down in there! John has a weather phone in the motorhome that rings through warnings of any imminent bad weather and twice later that night it rang. I spent a sleepless night wondering which would be the worst option - being carried away in the motorhome or lying in the dirty, stinking ditchwater behind the shed. In the event, the tornado passed us by and next day, the wind had settled and the sun was out. Phew!
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