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Before leaving Morgan City, we booked up our hotel for the next two nights. Jools chose Port Arthur. I assumed it was because it was beside the seaside. Or something.
Before hitting the road, we have breakfast, which included the young Jelltex trying to operate the automatic pancake making machine. Two minutes later, two small well cooked pancakes dropped onto a Styrofoam plate, which my plastic knife and fork struggled to cut.
The coffee was good though.
All our dirty laundry is in one case, the clean in the other, meaning we only have to carry one case when we check in now.
We load the car, Jools programs the sat nav, and we set off towards the interstate.
It was a glorious morning, so glorious we managed to work out how to open the sun roof on the car, so that a cool fresh breeze kept us chilly. But we stuck with it, as it nearly November and was sunny. It looked like summer and we were going to enjoy it!
We drove up through fields criss-crossed with ditches and dikes, passing through places like Baldwin, Jeanerette, New Iberia. Passing through identakit towns with strip malls, fast food joints and filling stations all looking the same. Sigh.
And then we join I10. The day was warmer, and carried on heading west, travelling across farmland barely abover the water table, but crops of sugarcane, rice all looking very healthy. Trucks carried away harvested cane for processing. We drove on.
Lake Charles had a very fine lake, called Charles I believe, and a huge bridge which the interstate leapt over yet another canal big enough for ocean-going liners to get up.
And after another half an hour we left Louisiana and entered Texas.
Wish us well.
Not quite sure what happened to the road, but it went from being wide and straight to narrowed laned and twisting and turning. Caught me by surprise, but as traffic was light, my poor lane management caused no issues.
We turned off to go south towards Port Arthur. The road went over yet another canal on a pair of stupidly high bridges, so high, Jools took shots.
A ten minute run down a busy road brought us to our hotel, La Quinta, a chain, but reasonable. Our room wasn't ready. Not surprising at it was only half twelve.
What to do?
I looked at the map, and it showed a nature reserve called Texas Point. I programmed it in, and off we went.
After a while, the road went through the middle of an oil terminal. Very odd indeed, the pipes, pillars and cables reached over and under the road, the air was thick with the smell of chemicals.
Out the other side, and the road ran beside yet another canal, and more oil refineries type places until we were in open country. On the right hand side, reeds stretched out of sight, but again, the water was lapping at the edge of the road.
At the main junction, there was a diner.
We were hungry. Shall we go in?
We shall.
Tammie's diner ran from a caravan, or whatever one is called over here. After the food is cooked, there is a covered area to sit. Food is good, plentiful and cheap.
Grackles wait to hoover up the leftovers. These are the American version of magpies; slightly smaller, all black, but in sunshine their feathers have a blue iridescence. They are smart as heck, later I would watch on go round to the front of cars picking off dead flies to eat, so much protein with little effort.
Ten more miles down the road brought us to Sea Rim State Park.
The air had been thick with dragonflies up to this point, but here there were dozens, hundreds on the wing, feeding (we found out later) on mosquitoes. Now, mosquitoes can smell the blood of a Jelltex from miles off, now here I was in their back garden, it would be messy.
It was about twenty five degrees, a stiff breeze blew, meaning that the dragonflies didn't settle, making photography almost impossible. I tried to snap them on the wing, but the camera was having none of it.
Photos from our Off Piste, Backcountry & Splitboard courses in Morzine / Avoriaz & the Portes du Soleil.
Fraser Valley agritech entrepreneurs met with Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick to share a first-hand look at innovative developments in the agritech sector.
The AG-Tech Venture Accelerating Program (AVAP) is supporting agriculture technology by providing training and mentoring to maximize commercialization opportunities and accelerate growth in agritech companies.
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Each the evening the Ranger(s) put on a program. I was really challenged taking this shot until at one point all the campers turned flashlights on and the fire flared up giving me enough light for an exposure.
NYCHA-CUNY Resident Scholarship winners attend 10th Annual NYCHA-CUNY Resident Scholarship Program Awards Ceremony at BMCC's Fiterman Hall.
The Professional Fellows Program brings emerging leaders in the fields of legislative process and governance; civic engagement; NGO management; economic empowerment and entrepreneurship; and journalism from around the world to the United States for intensive fellowships designed to broaden their professional expertise. Participants spend approximately one month in the United States, during which they receive hands-on exposure to national legislative offices, state legislatures, local government offices, businesses, and non-profit organizations through carefully designed full-time fellowships. - See more at: exchanges.state.gov/non-us/program/professional-fellows-p...
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November 27, 28, 29 "The Clinging Vine"
November 30, December 1, 2 "The Little Kangaroo"
Brooklyn, New York: “When I first came as an audience member, from the minute that I walked into the theatre, I felt like I was a part of the ensemble, not only a member of the audience.” The Visalakshi Naranan Scholarship Fund
Presentación del Programa de Prevención y Atención de Adicciones.
Secretaría de Salud, Ciudad de México.
28 de enero de 2015.
Brighter Bites is a collaborative effort designed to improve access to healthy, affordable food and provide nutrition education. The University of Texas School of Public Health, KIPP Schools, the Houston Food Bank and Texas Children's Hospital have partnered to offer the 16-week program to third-grade children enrolled at KIPP Explore Academy and their parents. As you can see from the photos, those healthy kale smoothies are a hit!
Sacred Heart University students participate in the Community Connections program by working at the St. Margaretâs Shrine in Bridgeport, CT on Monday, August 21, 2017.
An early programmable thermostat made by the Minneapolis co. The clock and the thermostat must both be separately wound with an included key. Teeth on the back of the clock can be set for different times to trigger the thermostat to turn up or down. I have been told that this thermostat was originally located in the Selden, Kansas high school.
Programa de Edición Universitaria y Académica: Taller: Las ediciones universitarias también venden derechos. Aprende cómodentro de la XXXI Feria Internacional del libro en Guadalajara, México, martes 28 de Noviembre 2017. ( © FIL/Susana Rodríguez Cruz)
Nakon desetljeća i pol tapkanja u mjestu, dva kapitalna projekta riječke kulture, nove zgrade Muzeja moderne i suvremene umjetnosti (MMSU) i Gradske knjižnice, pokreću se s mjesta i to na način da će se revitalizirati gradski mrtvi kapital, odnosno prostor bivšega Rikarda Benčića koji je u gradskom vlasništvu. Naime, knjižnica ulazi u T-objekt, a Muzej u ciglenu zgradu, dio H-objekta i dio Palače Šećerane koja se već obnavlja. Uz to, u sklopu istog projekta, intenzivirat će se radovi na obnovi Palače Šećerane. Sve se smješta u gabarite postojećih zgrada.
U cijeli projekt financijski i provedbeno uz Grad Rijeku ulazi i Ministarstvo kulture jer je projekt u cijelosti u skladu s usmjerenjem Ministarstva kulture budući da kulturnu baštinu, u ovom slučaju vrijednu industrijsku baštinu,sagledava na suvremeni način dodjeljujući joj uporabnu funkciju i namjenjujući je upravo sadržajima kulture.
Riječ je o značajnom i hrabrom zaokretu od dosadašnjih projekata i koncepata, a takav zaokret je učinjen i s obzirom na financijsku situaciju u cijeloj zemlji koja uvjetuje potpunu neizvjesnost u kontekstu realizacije dosadašnjih projekata MMSU-a i Knjižnice.
Osim toga, ovakav projekt otvara i mogućnost da se pored sredstava Ministarstva kulture i Grada Rijeke u realizaciju uključi i Ministarstvo gospodarstva putem Centra za praćenje poslovanja energetskog sektora i investicija, te da se projekt sufinancira putem Europskih fondova.
Photos from our Off Piste, Backcountry & Splitboard courses in Morzine / Avoriaz & the Portes du Soleil.
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