Louisiana - Lafayette and Avery Island

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Travel story: Louisiana - Lafayette and Avery Island

The first stop on our Mardi Gras trip was Lafayette, Louisiana. Lafayette is the self-proclaimed capitol of 'Acadiana' or Cajun Country. It is the largest city in the region and the center of Cajun culture and we thought it would be a nice warm-up non-commercialized version of Mardi Gras to start with. Lafayette also still has a courir (French for 'to run') in which a group of people run through various neighborhoods collecting ingredients with which to make gumbo.
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