{"id":6368,"date":"2015-04-04T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T00:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rideforalzheimers.org\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2019-03-26T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:23:47","slug":"day-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=6368","title":{"rendered":"Day 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice quiet night, there was some rain during the night but it was all over by the time we were ready to go to breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/8251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/825_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"825\" width=\"1004\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short day today . . . or so we thought, so we didn\u2019t head downtown until 8:00am for breakfast. The Waffle Shoppe,\u00a0 had a LOT more to eat than waffles . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/8261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/826_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"826\" width=\"1004\" height=\"663\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Including MANY variations of Biscuit&#8217;s and Gravy . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/8271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/827_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"827\" width=\"1004\" height=\"607\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great gang of waitstaff descended on us to make sure we were all stuffed . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/8281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/828_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"828\" width=\"893\" height=\"566\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . sausage patties as big as hamburgers!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/829_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"829\" width=\"1004\" height=\"699\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we left town, I saw my first drive through Crayfish stand . . . they REALLY make it easy here to get your snacks . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/830.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/830_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"830\" width=\"1004\" height=\"744\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . local ordinance?????<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/831.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/831_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"831\" width=\"994\" height=\"557\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good American\u2019s . . . got the flag, the porch and the rocking chairs!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/832_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"832\" width=\"1004\" height=\"536\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure what this was all about . . . but I think I will pass on the Diaper Cakes (whatever they are) . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/833.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/833_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"833\" width=\"1004\" height=\"622\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freezer beef . . . not sure how it differs from regular beef, but No Hormones!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/834_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"834\" width=\"1004\" height=\"634\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>mmmmmmmm . . . miniature rat terriers . . . can you say rats????<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/835_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"835\" width=\"1004\" height=\"535\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allen Parish must be a REALLY small entity . . . Entering Allen Parish . . . and leaving the Soil &amp; Water District, all in 25 feet!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"836\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/836_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"836\" width=\"1004\" height=\"575\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another great name . . . Burl Cain!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/837_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"837\" width=\"1004\" height=\"355\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are evidently in a great canoeing area . . . lots of liveries. Not too busy on Easter weekend, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/838_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"838\" width=\"1004\" height=\"575\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our first sign of the word Cajun . . . here at Cajun Dave\u2019s you can get whatever you need\u00a0 . . . Cajun style !!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/839_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"839\" width=\"1004\" height=\"544\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gina and Karen drove to Oberlin and rode back towards us. When I saw her, she told me there was a dead bobcat on the road, right on the outskirts of Oberlin. She is a GREAT kidder and I thought she was telling another fib, until I rolled into town and saw what looked like a BIG cat in the road . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/840_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"840\" width=\"1004\" height=\"454\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . .it was a big cat . . . a bobcat!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/841_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"841\" width=\"1004\" height=\"678\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful animal . . . with great markings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"842\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/842_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"842\" width=\"1004\" height=\"758\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seemed to be in a \u2018peaceful\u2019 state. Linda, respectfully, pulled it off the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"843\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/843_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"843\" width=\"1004\" height=\"549\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey look at that . . . another crayfish drive through as we entered town . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/844_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"844\" width=\"1004\" height=\"513\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got to the Oberlin Inn, which ended up being probably the worst place we have \u2018tried\u2019 to stay. Conference in session . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"845\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/845_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"845\" width=\"1004\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . the rooms had a bad stench and the second floor was a \u2018residence area\u2019. There was a guy sitting on the steps that looked like he was in the process of being evicted. A group decision to reload the vehicle and head to the next town, 30 miles down the road . . . Eunice. It will put us 30 miles closer to Lafayette too, as we head for New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/846_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"846\" width=\"1004\" height=\"792\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met Echol who was heading west from West Palm Beach, FL. He sold his house and plans on being on the road for the next ten years. He&#8217;s heading to San Diego and then on up to Alaska!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"847\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/847_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"847\" width=\"1004\" height=\"671\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and has a unique \u2018third wheel\u2019 he pulls behind his bike. The wheel can be used as a spare for the front too!!!! GREAT idea. He says he can\u2019t feel it being towed behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/848_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"848\" width=\"1004\" height=\"566\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everybody seems to be drinking chocolate milk for a \u2018recovery drink\u2019. Looks like you could jump right in this river and bath in chocolate milk. Must have been some heavy rain in the area to produce this much sediment runoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"849\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/849_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"849\" width=\"1004\" height=\"458\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>mmmmmmm . . . wonder what they are brewing in this chemical plant on the shore of this crayfish farm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/850_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"850\" width=\"1004\" height=\"666\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we rolled into Eunice, we also entered an National Heritage Area . . . nice!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/st\/04\/851_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"851\" width=\"1004\" height=\"460\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice mural welcoming us to town . . . big Wisconsin game tonight!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice quiet night, there was some rain during the night but it was all over by the time we were ready to go to breakfast. Short day today . . . or so we thought, so we didn\u2019t head downtown until 8:00am for breakfast. The Waffle Shoppe,\u00a0 had a LOT more to eat than waffles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=6368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 35<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southerntier","tag-alzheimers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}