When I saw Three Dog Night was touring.....I knew we had to go. The closest they came to Houston was Vinton, Louisiana to the Delta Downs Casino. I was on a mission to get tickets. It was a difficult task and then one day the Heavens opened up and I found some tickets someone was selling online. Couldn't have asked for better seats: 11th row, seats 1 & 2 Center Aisle.
Yes, we were going on another vacation!
Well actually, this was only a mini overnighter. Things were just too wild and crazy for us to take time off. And Vinton, LA isn't exactly a destination city. In fact, the only hotel in town was at the casino and they were charging a premium rate to stay there.
We got up early on Saturday morning, August 16th loaded up the Mustang, and headed east. We made the decision to take the "back" way to Louisiana, which is small County and State roads through the little towns. So much more scenic than the traditional route along I-10.
Our plan was to make a day of traveling to Orange, TX, which is where our hotel was (and only 20 minutes from Vinton, LA). We were going to explore the downtown areas of the small towns along the way and find interesting things to do to spend our time.
First small towns were Liberty and Dayton, but neither town earned a stop from us. As we were travelling down the highway we saw a sign to Sour Lake, TX. Well it just so happened we knew a couple of people from there, so we made a small detour to see what this place was all about.
We found an awesome place that had 3-4 antique shops. We LOVE to peruse old shops and see what kind of treasures we can find. We ended up with a stack of paperback books and a picture to hang in our "breakfast" room.
We hopped back into the car and headed to Beaumont. Lunch was next on our agenda and we found a place called Gino's.
Our next destination in Beaumont was a huge garage sale that Paul found on the internet. It actually ended up being an old warehouse in DESERTED downtown Beaumont. But, it was huge and filled with all kinds of interesting treasures and JUNK.
Paul did find some interesting small brass animals and a display box that he liked.....so that was our purchase there. I even got him to try on one of the weird hats they had for sale.
On to the next destination, which is actually something we've driven by so many times on our way to the Louisiana casinos. We always say "the next time we drive by here we should stop". This time, we did.
The Babe Dedrickson Zaharias Museum. She was a native from the Beaumont area who was an accomplished world athlete in Track and Field, Golf, and Basketball.
Well....it was hot and we were tired.....so we hopped in the car and did the 30 miles to Orange, TX, which is also not a metropolis by any stretch of the imagination.
We still had a free hotel night......so we stayed at the luxurious and upscale Hampton Inn in Orange.
The concert was amazing and what was even more amazing was that we were practically the youngest people there.....lol. The Three Dog Night were AWESOME!
Slept in Sunday morning and took our time headed back to Houston. We took the back way once again and stopped and had Mexican food for lunch.
It was a nice, quiet, relaxing and fun time spent with my bestest friend!
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