I enjoyed very much this journey through Louisiana: beautifuñl landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of Louisiana: New Orleans and the music ( Steven Rohbock and his band playing in the morning at the Beignet cafe, Paul Revski, the French guide, Jessica and Joseph, the neighbors speaking about the ambiance of village, Gerald French and his band "Original Tuxedo Jazz band"), the bayous (the water, the cypress and the Spanish moss, Shawn Guchereau at Lake Martin, the alligators, the Atchafalaya river and the quietness of his fishing cabin), the Cajun Country (the 150 000-200 000 French speaking person, the story of the expulsion of the Acadians and their arrival in Louisiana, Mavis arnaud Fruge and the meeting of French speaking people, David Cheramie, the historian, Joseph "Pete" Bergeron, the announcer at th radio station KRVS, the promotion of the French language through the Cajun music), the Mississippi River and the steamboats (Debbie Fagnano playing steam organ-steam calliope- on the Natchez steamboat, Mark Twain making famous the river,), the navigation on the Mississippi (the ferry captain Michael Gerrets and the ferry crossing the river, Bob Marshal, guide of the Lost Lands Tours , the kayaking on the river), the Houmas House (Kevin Kelly the owner of the plantation-now open garden for the public, Nathalie the guide showing the gardens and the mansion to the visitors), the Whitney plantation (Ibrahima Seck, the Senegalese historian and the investigation about the slaves working in this plantation) and the fishing rodeo (Allan Gautreaux and his friends trying to catch fishs , Mandy Tumlin, the biologist and referee of the fishing competition, Abigail Woodard and the underwater fishing).
I enjoyed the counters of Jérôme with Chloe Feoranzo in New Orleans (the Jackson Square, the Bourbon Street, the tasting of the beignetthe rehearsal of the jazz band), with Bonnie Breaux at Breaux Bridge (the market , the "sydnie Mae Cafe" and the shrimps and grits, Coatney S. Raymond of "Buck & Johnny's", the zydeco cajun music and the dancing moment, the cabn near the bayou), with Rachel Bradsness of the Alliance Française (the Bastille Day at the Art Musuem, the "merry" Antoinette and the eccentric costumes), with Darryl Durham (New Orleans after Hurricane Karina, the summer school for children) with Jenny-Houma native American-(Ricky Verrets and his wife Betsy, the fishing in the Bayou Du Large, the coastal erosion, the alligator gars and the meeting with the Houma community-Cocoo Crepel,the new leader of the Houma community-, the traditional dances and and the eating of oysters); very nice encounters with very kind Louisianan men and women.