Old friends and crawfish

Pulled chocks in New Orleans at about 0930 and headed west to Welsh LA to see old Army friends from Korea circa 1972. As usual, we went back roads. Here's one of the larger back roads were were on. About 1/2 the trip was on a US highway, the rest on State or County.

On US 90 we passed ship and oil rig builders, the Mississippi River, sugar cane fields, rice fields, and crawfish farms. Plus we got to see how the people in southern LA live. Very nice trip. So glad we didn't go I-10.

Arrived at the Lejeune's at 1515 and had a great reunion. When I was assigned to the military advisory group in Pusan, Korea in '72, Dave was assigned to be our sponsor. The Army does this for overseas assignments so as to have a point of contact for all kind of info re the move. I drew an Ace with Dave and Carolyn. That official assignment turned into a great friendship. After Korea, we each went our way and, since this was before Al Gore invented the internet, we lost contact except for a few times when they visited our restaurant. They went to Czechoslovakia for work and we lost contact. They found me a few months ago via a fellow Citadel graduate. That is friendship.  Pictures in the next post.

In the evening we went to D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant.  LINK  What a great place!!! Food, Cajun music and dancing, family crowd. Can't say too much about here. Dave and I tore up 3# of Crawfish each and the ladies had great shrimp and catfish.

3# of goodness

Dave is a champion crawfish picker

But I wasn't far behind him

Here's some Cajun music from the band

What a great day. I haven't spent much time with Dave and Carolyn since Korea but we picked up right where we left off. Feeling very lucky and blessed.

What did we learn today?

• So much. Inter alia: how sugar cane, rice, and crawfish are grown; life in southern LA; Cajun food...
• Real friends are always there.