Our next stop on the road was near Lafayette Louisiana in the small town of Duson. We have stayed several times before at Frog City RV Park . It is a nice little Passport America park just of the interstate. It has pull through sites, a little road noise, a small pool and a great location to try out all the boudin balls in the area.
Next to the town of Duson is a small town called Scott. Scott, Louisiana is smack in the middle of a region in Louisiana known as Acadiana. A lot of French influence historically in this area gave rise to the wonderful Cajun culture we so thoroughly love. Scott is a well known tasty stop off of I-10 for some of the best boudin in Louisiana.
There are four places in Scott known for their boudin balls Boudin balls are a classic Cajun culture food staple. Made from boudin which is a pork sausage made with rice and seasoning usually stuffed into a casing. For boudin balls, they simply remove the casing, roll it into balls (about the size of a tennis ball), bread them and then deep fry them to a perfect crisp.
Healthy? No! But let’s be real healthy food will never tastes this good. We planned to try all four stops at Billy's Boudin & Cracklins, Kartchner’s Specialty Meats, The Best Stop Supermarket and Don's Specialty Meats. We managed to try three out of the four as Don’s was closing by the time we arrived and didn’t have what we wanted.
The winner for us was Kartchner’s Specialty Meats Jalapeno/cream cheese boudin ball and the runner up was Billy's Boudin & Cracklins pepperjack boudin ball. I also had to buy me some cracklings at Billy’s and had absolutely no regrets doing so. Man this was some fine, albeit unhealthy, eating. I am sure I’d be 250 lbs. if I lived near here!
We left the Acadiana part of Louisiana and stopped for one night in another site we have stayed at before in Texas just across the Louisiana border. Near the town of Vidor we stayed at another Passport America park called Boomtown RV Park.
We didn’t even unhook as we planned to leave the next morning. Well that is when things turned sour. As we were preparing to leave one jack would not come back up. I couldn’t retract it manually either since I didn’t have the right sized bit to use in my drill to retract it. We called the office for mobile RV repair guys and both of the ones I called couldn’t get to us for several days.
Not wanting to spend more time in Vidor we called the office again to ask if they had a commercial hydraulic jack and lucky for us they did. A nice young man brought it over on his golf cart and jacked up the front of our RV. Then I simply crawled under the RV and unplugged the Atwood jack. I then removed the four bolts holding it on and removed the jack from the RV.
The nice guy then dropped the RV back down and I tossed the old jack into our CRV. We even made our departure before the 11:00 am checkout time. We were so thankful that Boomtown RV Park worked with us to help get our RV mobile again. Now when we get to College Station I’ll have a longer time to solve this problem.
Boudin balls ... never heard of them, but they do sound like an awesome heart attack! Good fix on your stuck jack, at least until you actually fix that pesky jack!
ReplyDeleteThey are a tasty road treat.
DeleteI said the same thing after having beignets for breakfast three mornings in a row in New Orleans - thank heaven we don't live around here! Good luck with the jack fix!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely the truth!
DeleteThanks for the recommendations for passport America parks going West. I seem to have a lot of trouble finding nicer passport parks and have mostly stopped looking at them. Really envying you your knowledge and ability to be able to deal with the Jack that wouldn't come up. I would simply have had to wait for the RV Tech and hope that the park would understand I simply could not drive.
ReplyDeleteMost Passport America parks are far from elegant, however, there are many that are totally fine for short stays.
DeleteBeing married to a full Cajun, I well know about Boudin and Boudin balls. Boudin balls I can handle. Can't even stand the smell of Boudin. Tried it once. Once was too many times. But I live with it when he pops one it the microwave. Oh what we do for love.
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