Day 15 – “On the Road Again…”

Today was basically a travel day, going from San Antonio to Lafayette, LA in about 9 hours with a couple hours of stops along the way. The first stop was in Sequin, TX, to see the world’s largest (fake) pecan. The Sequin area is actually famous in Texas for their pecans so we bought some just down the road.

Next we stopped in Beaumont, TX, to visit the replica of a Texas oil boom town from 1901. Spindletop was the largest oil deposit ever found to date and both the Gulf Oil and Texaco companies were formed to process the oil from that field.

Janis Joplin's Car (Port Arthur, TX)

Next stop was the Gulf Coast Museum in Port Arthur, TX.  Port Arthur is the hometown of several famous people, but we know it best for Janis Joplin, who was born and raised there. The museum has a small exhibit including her car (see photo). One curious thing that I liked is that they had displays for G.W. Bailey and Bubba Smith who were born in the Gulf Coast area, but what they chose to display was their uniforms from the “Police Academy” films.  Go figure.

We ended the night with a nice Cajun seafood dinner in Lafayette, LA.  Lafayette is in the center of Cajun country but for us was just a convenient stopping point.