Baker, Louisiana Day 4 (GA427)

Mary is no longer available for RV traveling, but we remain good friends.

Because we have 5,000+ postings, I’ve invited her to continue posting entries on this blog.

I’m currently in my 23rd year of full-time RVing and my lifestyle is changing, For more info click Here

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The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails RV Resort in La Conner, Washington. I’ll depart here August 13th.

 

 

 

Since my RVing life is changing (see above), I’m starting to re-visit previously visited places. So rather than constantly re-blogging past entries, I’ve decided to do something different.

  In 2011-2013, Mary and I did a 682 day, 12,679 miles in the motorhome and 8,000 miles in the Bronco, circumnavigation of the United States, which I called The Great Adventure. I called it so because other than my oldest granddaughter’s high school graduation in June in Connecticut, I didn’t know where we would be going or when we would be there!

So, unless I do something really different and unusual warranting a new blog entry, I’ll be posting entries from that trip.

This entry was posted March 14, 2013…

 

Note: Mary flew from Baton Rouge Airport, Louisiana on March 12 to her home in California. I’m hoping to get her back with me by mid-April. My current plans are to stay here for a few days and then start SLOWLY drifting north along the Mississippi River to Memphis, Tennessee where I’ll then turn northeast heading for New England. Can’t go north too fast because it’s still cold up there!
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The motorhome is currently parked at VFW Post #4224 in Baker, a few miles north of Baton Rouge.

 

 

Yesterday I drove the Bronco the about 10 miles to the West Baton Rouge Museum which you can read about by clicking their official website link…
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/

 

 

It is an excellently done museum where they have a large main building and several other buildings that have been moved from the plantations to that location…

 

 

 

 

 

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gwen Laviolette was my individual tour guide. She’s a retired French language school teacher, born in St. Martinsville, Louisiana and has lived in the area most of her life. She is very knowledgeable and provided me with a lot of information which greatly added to my visit there…

 

 

The museum is actually located in Port Allen…directly across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge…is funded by the Parish and hence the name…West Baton Rouge Museum. You can read about Port Allen by clicking this Wikipedia link…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Allen,_Louisiana

 

 

Gwen told me that in the past in this area of Louisiana…sugar was king. In 1900 there were 26 sugar mills…the last one closed in 2005. You can read about and see photos of that mill by clicking this link…
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73%3Acinclare-plantation&catid=42%3Ahistoric-markers&Itemid=54

 

 

Here’s an excellent link showing the remains of that mill…
http://abandonedbatonrouge.typepad.com/abandoned_baton_rouge/2010/04/cinclare-plantation-sugar-mill.html

 

 

 

 

 

A 22′ model of a sugar mill…

 

 

 

 

Here are some more photos that I took…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Aillet House is an example of a small Creole plantation house…circa 1830…

 

 

 

 

 

As it once looked…

 

 

 

 

 

The interior of a slave cabin…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The interior of a plantation store…

 

 

 

 

 

Photos from inside the store…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Kirby is the head man of maintenance at the museum…

 

 

 

 

 

Other photos in the museum…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like I said earlier…a great museum…admission for seniors is only $2. A good value for the experience. Highly recommended if you find yourself in this area.

 

 

Enjoying interesting local museums is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!

 

 

The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Louisiana. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

 

 

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…
http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

 

TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! MARY WROTE A MANY GREAT BLOGS…SO WHENEVER SHE PUBLISHED A BLOG POSTING THE SAME DAY THAT I DID…YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ HER BLOG BY CLICKING THE BELOW LINK! DO IT NOW!

https://otrwjam.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/manufacturing-and-design/

 

 

 

 

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PHOTOS.

Forecast for today is sunny and 75 degrees.

Enjoying nice weather is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!

The red dot on the below map shows my approximate location in the State of Washington. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

 

 

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My current travel rig is a 2006 Fleetwood 26′ Class A Motorhome and a towed 1986 Ford Bronco II, Eddie Bauer Model. This photo was taken in the desert at Slab City near Niland, California…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!

Click this link to start the video. Make sure you have your speakers turned on and go to full screen asap.
http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8

 

 

If you would like to see my YouTube videos, click this link… http://www.youtube.com/user/JimJ1579/videos

 

 

There are more than 700 photo albums in my Picasa Web Albums File. To gain access, you simply have to click this link… https://get.google.com/albumarchive/110455945462646142273?source=pwa

 

 

If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/

 

 

For more information about my books, click this link:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust

 

 

All original works copyrighted – Jim Jaillet -2018

SUGAR BATTERIES.

I love Science magazines because I always find seemingly impossible things that could come true. From Virginia Tech’s Y. H. Percival Zhang comes this information:

Even today’s best rechargeable lithium batteries do lose their ability to hold a charge after a while, and are considered toxic waste once discarded. In just a few years, they may be replaced by batteries that are refillable and biodegradable, and that will also have a higher energy density yet a lower price … and they’ll run on sugar.

 

“Sugar is a perfect energy storage compound in nature,” says  Zhang, who is leading the research. “So it’s only logical that we try to harness this natural power in an environmentally friendly way to produce a battery.”Its energy density is “an order of magnitude higher than others,  a type of enzymatic fuel cell.” The catalyst in its anode is made from inexpensive enzymes, as opposed to the costly platinum that’s used in regular batteries. When the maltodextrin is combined with air, water and electricity are produced. Unlike the hydrogen fuel cell, the sugar battery is non-explosive and non-flammable.

 

Zhang envisions users refilling the batteries with sugar when they need refueling, “much like filling a printer cartridge with ink.” He hopes that they may be powering electronic devices in as little as three years.

 

A paper on his research was published today in the journal Nature Communications.

Well, shoot, I guess pouring sugar in your gas tank isn’t going to happen.  I was hopeful, though until that last sentence, “electronic devices.”  But then, sugar batteries would probably make our chocolate bars, candy, and sweet rolls  VEEERRRRYY expensive if we tried to run cars on sugar. Maybe solve the obesity problem. Reminds me of that song, “….sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar in the sumertime…” I think that was a different kind of sugar though.

Sugar does alleviate boredom between a doctor’s appointment, taxes and my haircut yesterday.

 

 

 

 

 

Baker, Louisiana – Day 4

Note: Mary flew from Baton Rouge Airport, Louisiana on March 12 to her home in California. I’m hoping to get her back with me by mid-April. My current plans are to stay here for a few days and then start SLOWLY drifting north along the Mississippi River to Memphis, Tennessee where I’ll then turn northeast heading for New England. Can’t go north too fast because it’s still cold up there!
————————————————————————————————————–

The motorhome is currently parked at VFW Post #4224 in Baker, a few miles north of Baton Rouge.

Yesterday I drove the Bronco the about 10 miles to the West Baton Rouge Museum which you can read about by clicking their official website link…
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/

It is an excellently done museum where they have a large main building and several other buildings that have been moved from the plantations to that location…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

Gwen Laviolette was my individual tour guide. She’s a retired French language school teacher, born in St. Martinsville, Louisiana and has lived in the area most of her life. She is very knowledgeable and provided me with a lot of information which greatly added to my visit there…

The museum is actually located in Port Allen…directly across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge…is funded by the Parish and hence the name…West Baton Rouge Museum. You can read about Port Allen by clicking this Wikipedia link…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Allen,_Louisiana

Gwen told me that in the past in this area of Louisiana…sugar was king. In 1900 there were 26 sugar mills…the last one closed in 2005. You can read about and see photos of that mill by clicking this link…
http://www.westbatonrougemuseum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73%3Acinclare-plantation&catid=42%3Ahistoric-markers&Itemid=54

Here’s an excellent link showing the remains of that mill…
http://abandonedbatonrouge.typepad.com/abandoned_baton_rouge/2010/04/cinclare-plantation-sugar-mill.html

A 22′ model of a sugar mill…

Here are some more photos that I took…

The Aillet House is an example of a small Creole plantation house…circa 1830…

As it once looked…

The interior of a slave cabin…

The interior of a plantation store…

Photos from inside the store…

Mr. Kirby is the head man of maintenance at the museum…

Other photos in the museum…

Like I said earlier…a great museum…admission for seniors is only $2. A good value for the experience. Highly recommended if you find yourself in this area.

Enjoying interesting local museums is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!

The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Louisiana. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein

If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…
http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/

All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2013
For more information about my three books, click this link:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust