Louisiana

Year of First Visit -- 1993
Point of Entry -- I-10 near Beaumont

We needed a chance to get out of town for a few hours one Saturday afternoon not long after moving to Texas so we decided to go exploring. 90 miles later we found ourselves near the Louisiana line and decided to venture across it just to say that we'd been there.

We stayed on I-10 until we saw an exit for the town of Iowa. Since Iowa was the state we'd left to move to Texas we decided to turn around there and head back toward home.

The only other time I was in Louisiana was on the drive when we moved from Houston to Baltimore. We'd left our house in the late afternoon once the movers had cleared out the house and headed east. We spent the night in Lake Charles and hit the road early the next morning.