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2008-02-09 12:13 PM Bayou, part 2 Read/Post Comments (0) |
So yesterday I finished up my obligations to the university, had lunch with Keith (crawfish etouffe, black-eyed peas, mac'n cheese, strawberry pie with an indescribable graham cracker crust), and then was off on my own.
I wandered over to the local yarn shop and I learned something else about Louisiana (or at least Lafayette): They don't believe in sidewalks. I was amazed by this; the weather is clearly walking weather for most of the year (probably not August, when, I'm told, the temperature and humidity hover around 95 and the mosquitoes are as big as 747s), yet nobody seems to walk anywhere. Or ride bikes, either. Nonetheless, it didn't matter much, as the local yarn shop is only about .2 of a mile from my hotel room. There was a crowd in the back, sitting and knitting. I thought briefly about asking if I could join them, but the gathering was inside, of course, and I wanted to be outside. So I wandered over to Girard Park, where I spent the better part of three hours sitting and knitting:
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