{"id":1276,"date":"2016-10-27T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2016-10-27T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:48:10","slug":"a-partial-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"A Partial Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, Oct 27<\/h3>\n

Today was a short drive from Lake Charles to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I had planned, and made, three stops but was expecting to do much more at the first two than was actually possible when I arrived..<\/p>\n

Stop one was at St. John’s Cathedral in Lafayette, LA. Although this is a relatively modern church the online reviews convinced me it was worth a visit. I arrived just before noon to find the large parking lot almost full, the construction crew working outside shutting down all of their equipment and a large number of pedestrians heading for the entrance and realized that there must be a service. This limited me to strolling around outside and taking photos of the cemetery, the amazing 500 year-old live oak nearby and the exterior of the church. All were beautiful so it is a pity I was not able to get inside.\"st-john-cemetery\" \"st-john-live-oak\" \"lafayette-st-johns-cathedral\"<\/p>\n

Stop two was at a wildlife conservancy just outside of Lafayette where there is a highly rated boardwalk trail through the swamp to Lake Martin. I arrived at the visitor center to find that it was closed – not a problem, I thought, I’ll just take the walk. However, a quarter of a mile along the trail I came across this \"lake-martin-boardwalk\"which scuttled my plan. I did drive to Lake Martin which looks like this. I’m sure the trail would have been great.\"lake-martin\"
\nThe third stop was a Louisiana State visitor center in the Atchafalaya Basin which is the largest river swamp in the US. This had free coffee, a great movie and several displays about the region. Interstate 10 cuts right across the basin over the third longest bridge in the US (18 miles long) and there are a couple of good views of the area in the video which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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