03APR08 - Kinder, LA

This morning, 03APR, we departed the Escapees’ Rainbow Park in Livingston, TX, after a very relaxing week. As we described in our blog of 26OCT07 about the Rainbow Park in Deming, NM, Corrie was offered a farewell hug when she went to the office to pay the bill. Turns out hugs are another Escapee tradition, one Dan is trying to avoid. We decided to take two days to get back to Houma. So we decided to check out the Coushatta Casino in Kinder, LA (Corrie says kind-er, Dan says kin-der). The wild flowers were with us well into Louisiana.

http://www.coushattacasinoresort.com/

Turns out the Coushatta Casino has a very nice RV Park, almost of resort status. You have full hook-ups including cable; but also have tennis courts, walking paths, and what looks like a heated pool (we didn’t check it out). And it has a very reasonable rate below market prices. Dan noted that over 75% of the RV were from Quebec and Ontario? His guess is that they might be in Louisiana because of the Cajun connection to the French Canadian Acadians.

We wandered over to the casino in the early evening. Corrie immediately signed up for a player’s card, which Dan refuses to do because he feels we never hit the same casino enough to build up “comps”. For once Corrie did very well on the penny slots and she won enough to cover Dan’s small loss on video poker and even pay for our RV spot.

However, when we went to check out the next morning, we were not charged at all! Turns out we were “comp’d” because Corrie had signed up for a player’s card. From there we went to the Casino’s gas station where diesel was a dime cheaper per gallon then anywhere in Texas or Louisiana. When we went on our first RV trip in 2004 we prided ourselves in always finding gas for less than $2/gallon. On our next big trip in 2007 we prided ourselves in finding diesel for less than $3/gallon. Now we count ourselves lucky when it is lower than $4/gallon! Definitely makes it challenging to be full time RV’ers.