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Mar 22 - 1933
Tallahassee. arrived in Pensacola at 650 PM ate frog legs for dinner
[[underlined]] Mar 23, 1933 [[/underlined]]
   Left Pensacola at 830 AM & went out to Pensacola Beach - one of the finest Ive ever seen saw several flocks of small dark herons probably [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Yellow Crowned Night Herons[[/underlined]] - [[checkmark]]  [[underlined]]Piping Plover[[/underlined]], [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Golden Plover[[/underlined]] 10, [[checkmark]]  [[underlined]] Laughing Gulls[[/underlined, [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Savannah Sparrow[[/underlined]] & [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Brown Pelicans, Boat Tailed Grackles, Loons[[/underlined]], [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Red breasted Mergansers [[/underlined]]
  Then to Mobile where we had dinner & thence to New Orleans arriving at 600 PM. From Biloxi Miss to Bay St. Louis we drove along the water front - a concrete sea wall for a distance of 27 miles and facing the sea one of the finest collection of beach homes I've ever seen. In New Orleans we made a trip to Antoine's a famous old french restaurant started in 1840. They charged us 3.60 each for dinner and not too much to eat at that. But everything was delicious. we had 6 oysters roasted on the half shell in some strange concoction - pompano cooked in a paper bag / a filet mignon - with mushroom sauce & French drip coffee - the later strong enough to take the hair off a dog at forty paces. Everything was perfect. To bed at nine in preparation for tomorrows long trip.
Mar 24, 1933
 Left New Orleans at 830 AM and traveled up the Mississippi for 20 miles crossing at Luling. arrived at Beaumont Texas at 530 PM after crossing the sugar cane belt of Louisiana & endless

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