Yes, everyone knows Baton Rouge means "red stick"
After mulling it over a bit, I decided to spend my free day in Baton Rouge. I figured if there's Mardi Gras parades, it's a big enough city to navigate around them. First I visited the world's smallest church in Iberville Parish.
It's on LA-405, one of the highways between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that runs parallel to the Mississippi. I like to drive around those river roads, I always find weird stuff.
I had lunch at a Hawaiian grill in Baton Rouge that I really like, and went to a couple of antique stores. Does anyone else feel like antique stores have kind of started sucking in the past 10 years? More and more of them salt their stock with "country craft" crap that isn't old, and of the stuff that's actually antique anything that isn't like, beaten to shit, is insanely overpriced. I think I read somewhere that because so much of what's made today (like furniture) is so shoddy, more and more people are opting for vintage, and it's driving up prices and making good stuff harder to find. I know when I first moved to Louisiana, Mom and I tried getting into estate sales as something we could do together. But we gave up pretty quick, because all of them would get picked clean by antiques dealers who would swoop in like vultures 5 minutes after the doors opened. Mom and I would get there an hour in and there'd be nothing left but the collectible spoons.
I hit up Trader Joe's on my way out of town and bought some wine. Two Buck Chuck has gone up another dollar and is now Four Buck Chuck. It was actually never $1.99 in Louisiana, that price only applies to California and a couple other western states. The further they have to truck it, the more they have to charge, so in Louisiana it was always $2.99. Anyway, I got a couple bottles of chardonnay and a couple of rose that looked good, including a bottle of actual made-in-France French rose that was on sale for $10. I'm pretty sure it was post-Valentine's Day clearance. I also got a box of almond lacey cookies for Mom, and one of the peanut butter cups for me.
It's on LA-405, one of the highways between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that runs parallel to the Mississippi. I like to drive around those river roads, I always find weird stuff.
I had lunch at a Hawaiian grill in Baton Rouge that I really like, and went to a couple of antique stores. Does anyone else feel like antique stores have kind of started sucking in the past 10 years? More and more of them salt their stock with "country craft" crap that isn't old, and of the stuff that's actually antique anything that isn't like, beaten to shit, is insanely overpriced. I think I read somewhere that because so much of what's made today (like furniture) is so shoddy, more and more people are opting for vintage, and it's driving up prices and making good stuff harder to find. I know when I first moved to Louisiana, Mom and I tried getting into estate sales as something we could do together. But we gave up pretty quick, because all of them would get picked clean by antiques dealers who would swoop in like vultures 5 minutes after the doors opened. Mom and I would get there an hour in and there'd be nothing left but the collectible spoons.
I hit up Trader Joe's on my way out of town and bought some wine. Two Buck Chuck has gone up another dollar and is now Four Buck Chuck. It was actually never $1.99 in Louisiana, that price only applies to California and a couple other western states. The further they have to truck it, the more they have to charge, so in Louisiana it was always $2.99. Anyway, I got a couple bottles of chardonnay and a couple of rose that looked good, including a bottle of actual made-in-France French rose that was on sale for $10. I'm pretty sure it was post-Valentine's Day clearance. I also got a box of almond lacey cookies for Mom, and one of the peanut butter cups for me.