Well, we've returned to Texas from our holiday trek to SC, spreading the 1,050-mile (not counting U-turns) drive over two days. Essentially we ate as much home cooking as we possibly could and left the Palmetto State when lifting a fork became no longer feasible.
The personal consequences of a BBQ, cheese grits, and lemon meringue pie diet remain, for the time being, blissfully un-documented.
Observation: I-10 and I-12 in Louisiana are entirely emblematic of that state's problem with governance. Except for the improved stretch in Baton Rouge (finally completed after what seems like 25 years of construction), the road is in a state of absurdly poor repair. Highways in equally poor Mississippi and Alabama are comparatively much better.
So the lack of maintenance of levees around N.O. was entirely typical. The question is, what did they really do with all the tax money?
Posted by Alan at December 30, 2005 10:40 PM