Northern Lights in Southern Louisiana!!

WHERE ARE WE? Slidell, Louisiana

Well the folks around here are just in awe as the northern lights have made an appearance here near the Gulf of Mexico.  The family I was talking with were in their late 30's and have never seen them before.  They are pretty ho hum compared to the shows back home, but none the less they are the northern lights.  It is the result of some geomagnetic storm that's happening right now.  

Anyway back to earlier today.  We decided to head down to Slidell today.  We had hoped to meet up with Ed and Lessie here, but alas it is not to be.  They are held up waiting for "Roundtuit" to get some repairs. Of course with the hurricane going through where they are getting it fixed, the parts they need are being delayed by a week or more.  Ed and Lessie escaped any of the storm by moving up into the Florida panhandle for a couple days.  We decided to come here anyway because we want to explore New Orleans a little bit more.  This is how we ended up where we are now.  

This was a bit of the scenery along the way.

And somewhere along the trip we showed that we have driven 4000 kms this trip so far.  Only 2380 kms to La Penita.  Piece of cake!!!

We knew we were getting close to the New Orleans area as we started to see damage from what may have been hurricanes.  The most notable one was Katrina which almost wiped out this area almost 20 years ago.

We arrived at Slidell about 4 pm and got all set up.  We have a nice grassed area to park on.  Even Archie is enjoying it.  

We are right by a boat tour place.  They do tours of the bayou looking at alligators and wild pigs.  We have gone on the tour before and enjoyed it immensely.  Don't know if we will do it again or not.

After supper, I went for a little bike ride down into a little subdivision that is close by.  They have a lot of Halloween decorations up and they are all lit up.  Here is some of what I saw on my bike ride.  Good Nite!!