Friday, April 8, 2011
Pine Grove Estates, DeRidder, LA: 3/10-12
"Estates" is a real stretch for this place. It's behind a junk store, car wash and detail shop and has mostly permanent trailers. However, they think highly of themselves and wouldn't even allow us to hang our laundry out on our drying rack. What a joke! We have hooks that hold a clothesline inside, so we settled for that. We toured the town and walked around the historic district a bit, enjoying lunch at Cecil's, a local Cajun restaurant, where the Shrimp Po'Boys and sweet potato fries were among the best we have eaten. They have an interesting building called The Hanging Jail, built in 1914, that got its name because two murderers were executed by hanging above the spiral staircase in 1928. It is an interesting, really creepy-looking Gothic building.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:46 AM 
