Baton Rouge, LA

Thought I was going to melt today... after it being so cool in Memphis the last few days, I hit Baton Rouge today, and it was about 100 in the van...

I'll probably sleep in the truck stop parking lot again tonight. At least its cooling down, as soon as the sun set it dropped about 15 degrees, and its still dropping. Big trade off, open windows, let in cool air and mosquitos... urg! Its only 81 now, feeling much better...

I was having a rough day today, Red Cross not overly helpful, but the people I talked to said they were processing somewhere around 10,000 per DAY, this week, so they were a bit burned out. Saw the coolest place today, the Red Cross was working in a old hotel, huge, like 25 foot
chandaleer, marble floors and columns, velvet wallpaper, etc, place was closed down, they opened it for an office for Red Cross... I only saw the main entry hall, I think the rest of the place may have been torn down already! Very cool, I wanted to shoot some video, but they wouldn't really let me. Oh well, nice people, but they were very careful, so couldn't help me much.

Glad I went to Memphis first, I got some great stuff there... if this was my first stop I'd have probably cried after all the drive. I didn't eat much today, plus the heat, so am about wore out. I finally ate a good cheese burger here at the casino / truck stop I'm at. Feeling better, but am wiped... trying to drink coffee and wake up a bit, don't want to go to sleep at 8 pm! Can sure tell my blood sugar got low though, I'm just really low right now. Emotions, energy, the whole package. Have to remember to take care of myself I guess!

I found a great link for news and weather for New Orleans, go to www.nola.com

Stay Tooned!
Carlin