Onward to New Orleans!

I love Meyers Landing.

Last night about 10, my phone crashed. Hard. I could not access GPS, couldn’t open any app, couldn’t make phone calls, and couldn’t even reboot.

I am lost in a Louisiana swamp and I cannot tell how to get out.

Finally, after deciding to go to sleep and yet continuing to fiddle with the phone in the dark, I say: “Hey Siri! Restart my phone. She asks: Are you sure?” I am actually NOT sure but 45 minutes of doodling haven’t fixed the phone so I hope she won’t make it worse. I say yes, and the problem is solved. Siri is now my higher power.

Siri- Ishtar. My personal digital goddess.

Here’s the other reason I didn’t fall right to sleep:

I’ve decided I will sell these as a set of 2 art prints on Etsy.

I had a lot of comfort in knowing that if the phone WAS frapped, the proprietress of the store would have helped me figure it out. Her name is Geralyn Broussard Meyers.

The Broussard Family Cookbook. Geralyn’s grandparents on the cover.

And yes, she and her husband are the Meyerses of Meyers Landing. She had these books on the shop counter, which resulted in me buying one, and asking her, her favorite recipes. Which then resulted in a 45- minute chit chat where, in addition to talking about cooking, I learned she and her husband have owned the Landing for 41 years! Her favorite is the Blue Bayou dessert.

I also had to buy this after reviewing her cook book:

I’m in a happy mood for the drive, since I’m not having to use a paper map and my actual wits, so I pop on more Zydeco. I listen to lots of happy tunes by a group called Beausoleil.

And this guy

I seriously hope I channel my own coolness as well as he channels his.

In Texas, it was Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Willie. In LA, Zydeco by anyone. My favorite Zydeco tunes:

Two Step Mamou

Johnnie Can’t Dance

Bitch Betta Pay

And after that lineup I laughed uncontrollably when this came on:

“I Got Loaded”. Again- coolest cover art ever.

Clearly these are the real people. we pass the Green House on the way out of camp:

Read more about it here- it’s one of the oldest French creole houses left in the south. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebert_House_(Lake_Arthur,_Louisiana)

There’s also a post on Facebook by the southwest Louisiana archaeological society (Hebert House) but I cannot figure how to link it. Need to learn more first.

As I drive east on I-10, it’s MILES of swamp!