3-75

I walked 1.23 miles, climbing 23 feet, in 25 minutes in Sulphur, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.  Tortoise rating:  6.8.  Chapter 3 totals are now 74.35 miles walked in 29 hours 30 minutes, with 4,298 feet climbed, and 11 swims totalling 4,240 meters in 4 hour 34 minutes.

Sulphur you may remember as a place we stopped on our 2001 cross-country trip.  Grandpa Forsyth so wanted us to eat at what he called the fabulous Pitt Grill ... and it turned out to be anything but.  Well, the Pitt decided to upgrade to a new facility a block away on the other side of the freeway, so for your viewing pleasure I present its new appearance.  

However, I was not in the mood to give the Pitt a second chance, and so instead went for a mixture of
orange and vanilla frozen yogurt ... think creamsicle.  There was a large lit parking lot between it and the neighboring Wal-Mart, so I walked and got tasty goodness to end my day ...

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Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise: 

Calorie Goal: 2,458 Calories Consumed: 2,248 Calories Burned: 215 Net Calories: 2,033

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Oatmeal	1.00	160	2g	0mg	270mg	33g	13g	3g	4g
Dannon Light Fat Free Activia Strawberry Yogurt	1.00	70	0g	3mg	80mg	12g	9g	1g	5g
Banana, medium	1.00	105	0g	0mg	1mg	27g	14g	3g	1g
Hard-boiled Egg	1.00	70	5g	212mg	62mg	1g	1g	0g	6g
Wendy's Ultimate Grilled Chicken Sandwich	1.00	360	7g	70mg	1,100mg	44g	11g	2g	31g
Wendy's Small Chili	1.00	210	6g	40mg	880mg	21g	6g	6g	17g
Beef Jerky	1.00	130	4g	50mg	880mg	9g	8g	0g	16g
Crackers, Saltines	1.00	59	2g	0mg	230mg	11g	0g	1g	1g
Almond	6.00	42	4g	0mg	0mg	1g	1g	1g	2g
Shrimp & Sausage Gumbo	1.00	190	5g	40mg	874mg	26g	2g	1g	10g
French Bread	1.00	115	2g	0mg	345mg	29g	0g	0g	5g
Butter	1.00	100	11g	30mg	95mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Pie, Coconut Cream	1.00	354	22g	36mg	367mg	36g	0g	0g	5g
Raw Cranberry Juice	1.00	116	0g	0mg	5mg	110g	31g	0g	0g
Yogurtland Frozen Yogurt	9.30	167	0g	0mg	1,163mg	49g	37g	0g	7g
Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	25.0	-215.0
Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,033	69g	481mg	6,352mg	410g	133g	18g	110g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz214yc22GR

If you foodies are wondering what fine eating establishment I stopped at for homemade shrimp and sausage gumbo, french bread and butter, not to mention a very tasty slice of coconut cream pie, well that would be the home of Bill and Stephanie Ledbetter, who were my kind hosts for 2 hours on a stop in DeRidder between Shreveport and Sulphur.  Rachel, Stephanie would be Uncle Wally's oldest daughter, or if you prefer, my first cousin.  Living that far away, I hadn't seen them since they were married ... something like 25 years ago.  We really enjoyed our brief visit, and I got back on the road.  Here's a couple pictures of them ...

Today's Last Word ...

"This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may appear to be nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our breast. We have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach it."  - President Dieter F. Uchtdorf 

Cheerio!