Opelousas, Louisiana

Opelousas, Louisiana, is quite the place as you’ll see if your check out their website:  http://www.cityofopelousas.com/

South City Park here “has the following amenities:

• Swimming pool
• Tennis courts
• Playground
• Handicapped accessible playground
• Baseball fields
• Bar-b-que areas
• Large Pavilion
• Teen Center
• Neighborhood Center
• Donald Gardner Stadium
• RV Parking”

The handicapped playground includes, among other items, swings for people with various disabilities including one that can hold a wheelchair.

A sign there provides instructions for visitors.

Local residents can get their own key.

We camped here last night. Here’s a glimpse of our evening entertainment as viewed from the cab our our RV.

The game looked like junior high school girls’ fast pitch softball. The blue team obviously has a coach that’s been teaching both theory and technique. The team understood the need to steal bases to move into scoring position and how to cover one another’s fielding positions.  The red team has a coach. I think. There was an adult with them. The blue team arrived early and warmed up looking very unskilled which is apparently a warm up thing because they improved dramatically as soon as the game started. Red team members continued to arrive after the game started but their play got better as the game went on. I think the red team was learning from watching the blue team. You can easily guess which team won. By a huge lead. But, most of them looked like they were having fun and that’s the most important thing.

Today we set out to visit museums here.

The Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center is not large but what it has is well presented.  It charges no fee but has a donation box so you can contribute based on your experience there.

The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum is not quite open yet but promises to be worth a stop when it is.

We only got to see the outside of the Creole Heritage Folklife Center because we couldn’t find a place to park our RV.  Opelousas is an old town so most of the streets are very narrow and the trees hang low over them.  This is one time it could have paid off for us to have a towed vehicle for sight seeing.

Now we are back in our RV spot in South City Park closing and opening our windows as the rain starts and stops.  I wonder if there is a game scheduled tonight?  If so, I wonder if it will get rained out or if we will have another evening’s free amusement.  There’s no pizza left but we do have popcorn.

TTYL,

Linda