Having read Longfellow’s Evangeline to our family when driving home from Nova Scotia in 1990, we thought it appropriate to visit the area west of New Orleans where the Acadians settled. There is still some of the Cajun culture, but it is rapidly disappearing, replaced by strip malls and big-box stores. Lafayette is considered the center of the Cajun Country; we stayed at T’Frere’s B&B. Of interest in the area are the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, Lake Martin, Randol’s Cajun Restaurant and Dance Hall, the Conrad (Konriko) Rice Mill, Avery Island (for Tabasco, Jungle Gardens and Bird City). On our way to Thibodaux, we stopped in Morgan City for a tour of an Oil Rig and lunch at Rita Mae’s Kitchen.