“Can you find LSU on the map?” the fair and industrious Trudy asked from behind the wheel. “That should be a great place for lunch.”<\/p>\n
Just a while before, we had crossed the Atchafalaya Basin on Interstate 10 [link<\/a>]. The 30 minute long kachunk-kachunk as you drive along the bridge (at exactly the posted speed limit) has been repaired, and the crossing was as smooth as glass.<\/p>\n Coming into Baton Rouge from the west, it isn’t hard at all to find LSU [live purple, love gold<\/a>]. Cross the Mississippi, and turn south at the first exit after the river. (You can’t miss the river. It’s a big one.)\u00a0After some industrial looking lots and some tree-lined neighborhoods and then Tiger stadium [link<\/a>] with purple and gold banners flying everywhere, we found the perfect place [link to the\u00a0Mellow Mushroom\/Baton Rouge<\/a>].<\/p>\n We checked our email. I filled out my timecard for next week and sent out a note to folks at work that I won’t be back for a week.<\/p>\n “We must look like such geeks,” Trudy mumbled, the both of us sitting with our noses in our laptops as we waited for our pizza to arrive.<\/p>\n No. I think not. Not here. Not at the LSU Mellow Mushroom. We don’t look like geeks here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Can you find LSU on the map?” the fair and industrious Trudy asked from behind the wheel. “That should be a great place for lunch.” Just a while before, we had crossed the Atchafalaya Basin on Interstate 10 [link]. The 30 minute long kachunk-kachunk as you drive along the bridge (at exactly the posted speed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}