Trip to the Island Tabasco Island

This morning we slept until 6:30…and you say well that is not late….but we went to bed at 9:30…yes 9 hours of sleep….My goodness we must have been tired. I got up and went down and made our coffee and then I got my shower and got dressed. Sherri was right be hind me getting her shower and then she got dressed and started getting the laundry ready to take down to the laundry mat.

During our coffee drinking we kind of changed our plans on what we were going to do. Sherri had been wanting to go down toward the coast and see some of the sites down there. So many had said we needed to go to Avery Island and see the Tabasco Factory. I have heard of Avery Island all my life and seen Tabasco on just about every restaurant table in the south…so I said lets go and see this factory.

We set the Garmin up to take us to the factory and take us there she did. At first we thought Glennie might have us lost but then she turned us right into the driveway as though she had been there before.

Sherri and I took turns doing the traditional posses outside the gift shop.

 

And took the pictures of the Welcome sign out front of the plant.

Sherri posses next to a pepper plant which we were unable to get into the bed of the pickup

You know I don’t have a clue if this is the front of the plant or the side or back or what. We did enter from this side for the tour so maybe it is the tour side of the plant?

This lady was stuck in one of the machines when I snapped this picture.

This is the Bottletopper  Stopperhopper

And then we have the Finalboxtabandershiper at the end of the line that sends the finished product to the Shiptoshopper unit.

These are the traditional placards found around the approach to the plant where they don’t have enough money for guides.

Then we drove down to Cypremorte Point Beach State Park on the Gulf…but as luck would have it the bridge was out…They couldn’t put a sign 15 miles back at the sign directing you to the park…my goodness then they would not have had the money for these signs telling you that the bridge was out…Notice they have 3 signs here saying basically the same thing. 

Gee no one working on this bridge…maybe they made a mistake and shut down the wrong bridge.

Not all was lost we found some beautiful homes to look at in Franklin Louisiana. The main street in town was loaded with giant Antebellum Homes some built as far back as 1837.

I had to take this picture on the fly….cars behind us must have already seen  these homes cause they were wanting me to move along.

This is the front yard of one of the homes there. I bet these trees were there before the homes were. No telling what stories they could tell of Confederate and Union soldiers riding up here back during the Civil War period. Man I love this kind of history!

We ended this adventure at Posada's Mexican Restaurant. We packed away some good food and then pointed the truck towards home. Tomorrow we leave this wonderful part of the States and travel north…we will see you soon…

Somewhere in Time