Day Two: Baton Rouge

State Capitol Building

​Well our second day of travel involved driving through four states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) and two time zones; Central Time and Twilight Zone. We arrived at our destination -- Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- around rush hour, which is always a well-planned, thrilling experience after driving driving 10 hours.

Upon arriving we still had enough energy and  daylight to see the the State Capitol building, 34 stories tall and the 7th tallest building in all of Louisiana, the Old State Capitol building which looks like a Disney castle, the state university LSU, and of course, the mighty Mississippi River. We had a wonderful good old Southern dinner of seafood gumbo, hushpuppies and po’ boy sandwich at local Parrains’s Seafood restaurant.

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View of the Mississippi

Bird sculptures

Old state capitol building

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​Here's me reading another state tourist fact during our travels. Did you know this plaque notes the last dedicated section to completion of Interstate 10! It is also a fact that your travel time doubles when you stopped to read some of these plaques.

On Wednesday we travel through the
​ Outer Limits (Texas). Until then. --MARTY