The old Capital building

This is the "old" capital building. Their brochure says "High on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River stands Louisiana's Old State Capital, a Gothic architectural treasure. The 150 year-old statehouse has withstood war, fire, scandal, bitter debate, abandonment and an occasional fistfight." We did a self tour of the inside of this building. They have all the rooms set up with various displays as it is no longer used for any obvious government business. One of the rooms had a hand gun on display that was "believed" to be the gun that killed Governor Long. We were going to spend more time walking around the river edge as they have quite a park area there, but the 30% chance of rain started to approach 100% so we just went back to the parking building, got our car and headed back to the motel. For those of you in the far North, the temps were around 77 today. Tomorrow we will get up fairly early and drive 468 miles to San Antonio, Tx.

When we got back I noted that the power plug for the 12 cooling for our new Coleman "ice" box was acting strange. Opened it up and sure enough had a intermittent connection. A quick trip to Wal-Mart and got a small soldering iron and fixed that. I brought multiple items, but no soldering iron. Then tried to read the pictures out of my camera and the drivers failed and asked me to insert my dirver CD. Right! That thing is 1100 miles away. So got out a usb memory card reader and pulled the pictures. Garmin says the trip has so far covered 1119.55 miles in 23:05 travel time for an overall average of 48.5 mph.