Day 5

TEXAS

Texas was passed through on the way to New Orleans after finishing up with Oklahoma (and we all know how riveting that was).

We found out that, yes, they really do make everything bigger in Texas

And this will also be listed under the "abundance" category, but statues of horses were everywhere. This particular one was right in front of a WalMart.

Temperature: 83 degrees F

Abnormal Roadside Items:

Armadillo

Opossum

Car battery

Yellow bucket

Grey bucket

White bucket

Orange bucket

Duct tape

Throw pillow

Flowered bed sheet

Maroon car fender

Animal tail (origin unknown)

Jack rabbit

Seat cushion

Plaid shirt

Abundant: Horse statues

LOUISIANA

Day 5 was concluded with a drive through the majority of Louisiana.

This part of the day was made especially interesting. We were playing a trivia game in the car to break the monotony of driving forever and it took a while to finish. At the conclusion, my mom looks over to me and says "your gas light is on we probably need gas". Internally, I'm panicking because we are in the middle of Louisiana swamp land with exits 10 miles apart and no gas stations. I asked her how many miles the car gauge said we had left.......ten. The internal panic worsens when I look over at where we are going to have to pull over and call a tow truck and there are signs all over the trees with pictures of bears on them and DO NOT ENTER. Oh. My. God. By some sort of miracle we went two more exits (a million miles) and found a Chevron. My mom claims that she wasn't paying attention because the trivia game was extremely competitive. Our result when we made it to the Chevron:

We neared New Orleans and crossed a 16 mile long bridge over a swamp and some lakes. This one was Henderson Swamp.

Temperature: 75 degrees F

Abnormal Roadside Items:

Rubber boot

Shoe

White bucket

Grey bucket

Black bucket

Armadillo

Prairie dog

Gas can

Rabbit

Raccoon

Opossum

Abundant: Signs with pictures of bears on them

Favorite part of the day:

Mom: Louisiana landscape looks like Washington

Annie: Going through Shreveport because I'm a True Blood fan

Favorite quote:

Mom: "70 mph really means 80"

Annie: "It looks like we might need gas"