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02/25/05 - Baton Rouge, LA (Photos
- same as San Antonio & Beaumont) MORE sightseeing (I think we've had about enough!) |
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| We managed to drag ourselves out of bed and New Orleans by around 12:30 on Friday afternoon, and planned to drive to Baton Rouge for the night. Along the way, we did some more sight-seeing at the LSU Rural Life Museum, where they had quite a few interesting artifacts that we’d never seen before (bathtubs from the 1800’s with built-in water heaters, steam powered room fans, etc.). We also stopped at the Louisiana State Capitol building in Baton Rouge on the way to our hotel. It’s quite a popular tourist destination. Governor Huey Long had it built in the 1930’s to be the nation’s tallest at 34 floors (and only art deco) capitol building. We walked around inside, very cool congressional chambers, then took the elevator to the observation deck up top, where you can see the Mississippi, LSU, the Capitol Gardens, and lots and lots of chemical factories. We spent a relatively unexciting night across the river in Port Allen at the Comfort Inn. |
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