{"id":573886034,"date":"2014-02-20T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886034"},"modified":"2014-03-03T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T06:45:08","slug":"travel-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/02\/20\/travel-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We drove from Birmingham to Lafayette, La. Google Maps says you can do that in just over six-and-a-half hours. I missed the turn onto I-12, so that meant we went through New Orleans. This unfortunate turn of events means I caught rush hour in New Orleans and in Baton Rouge. And also rain from Baton Rouge on. And I had to get there by 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

So we drove fast, me and three students. All through Mississippi and most of Louisiana we read Wikipedia facts of the various small towns aloud. It was a lot more fun than it should have been. <\/p>\n

We saw this mural just outside of Pachuta, Miss.<\/p>\n

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Some 245 people live in Pachuta. Here is the town hall, library AND fire department<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Anyway, we were all very ready to be out of the car. Very ready. We were in the car for more than eight hours and ade it in time, but only just. I dropped the students off, took our sports writer to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette Cajundome where he was covering a Troy-ULL basketball game for a sportswriting contest. <\/p>\n

We had dinner, gumbo and amazing red beans and rice. We checked in to the Hilton. Here’s my view from the 14th floor of the Hilton, Lafayette: <\/p>\n

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I did run tonight. I got six miles in, a nice little 10K at almost midnight. I do not know what is happening. I feel like my new shoes are officially broken in: <\/p>\n

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Aren’t they unattractive?<\/p>\n

Tomorrow the Southeast Journalism Conference begins in earnest. I have to be awake again in a few hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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