Day 197, Sunday, December 18

I Left Larry and Louise’s around 10am and headed for Mobile, AL where I lived until I was about 11 years old. It’s about a 700 mile trip and was completely uneventful. No deer. No bad drivers.
When I was laying out the initial route for my trip back in May, I planned to head into New Orleans for a bit of the Cajun flavor. Katrina changed those plans in a hurry. Instead of heading through New Orleans, I bypassed it through Baton Rouge. None-the-less the devastation from Katrina was painfully obvious. Most of the devastation I saw was in South East Texas because it was after dark by the time I rode through Louisiana.