Only reason to be here this time (I had been here many years ago) was to photograph the state capitol building. It was only just the evening before I came here this time that I recalled that LSU (Louisiana State University) is in Baton Rouge. A first cousin attended LSU. So I visited it too.

There is a huge bridge leading into the western part of the city on I-10. Thanks to my friend the GPS, I got to cross that bridge three times. Also, at some twenty-mile stretch of I-10 it was only the highway and the marshland. And I mean absolutely nothing else. Not a good place to get stranded.

LSU has pretty campus right on a large body of water. There is a tree-lined walking path along the waterfront. What was way cool was just as I got to the campus and got out of the car to begin looking around, I heard the school clock tower bong to say that it was 8:00 am then heard the eight chimes for the hour. And the air smelled so good from all the lush plant life and the nearby body of water. Like scents often do, that smell quickly took me back to my childhood days in Tennessee.

After going east a bit out of Baton Rouge on to the town of Hammond to pick up I-55, I-55 was a pretty drive. There, it was nothing but the highway and a huge wall of tall green trees lining both sides of the highway.