As we pedaled our bicycles through Louisiana today we saw hundreds of acres of rice fields similar to the kind you see North of Sacramento along I-5 if you have driven there. As we were riding along we saw rows of small wire cages in the water that floods the rice fields and we were curious what they were. John said, “I wonder if they grow Crawfish in the water” because they sort of looked like a crawfish or crawdad traps. Crawfish is the big deal here in the restaurants and signs everywhere advertise them for sale. When we got to camp I Googled rice growing techniques in Louisiana and discovered “sure enough” Louisiana grows 90% of the Crawfish in the USA, and they grow them in the rice fields after the rice has been harvested and the fields re-flooded. The crawfish grow very large because of all the rice stubble and biomass in the field left from the rice production and are like miniature lobsters. Tomorrow night we are camping in the backyard of a “Cayjan Resturant” whose owner likes bicycle riders, and let’s them stay at his Resturant. I am going to have a big pile of Louisiana Crawfish which they specialize in. On our last Bicycle trip when we rode to Portland, Maine across the Northern part of the US we had lobster in Maine to celebrate our finish. I will call my dinner tomorrow night an early celebration for completing the trip to St Augustine, Florida. We rode 85 miles today and it was a very nice day of riding. There was very little wind, the route today was almost totally flat and there were lots of things to see. We saw numerous big turtles crossing the rode, 6 to 10 inches in diameter, lots of snakes in the ditches along the road, some of them very large, all kinds of birds, plus all the small towns that we rode through with all their culture.