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Sunday, April 04, 2004
Uwe Neubauer came through about a month ago, and I forgot to post anything about it. A German engineer, he contacted me by e-mail, saying he wanted to spend two weeks paddling and camping in the Basin. Another interesting fellow, Uwe had escaped East Germany when he was younger, then got a doctorate in engineering and spent a lot of time travelling. He had been to the Amazon, Namibia, the Yukon and several other places. He had read C.C. Lockwood's book years before and decided he wanted to see the Basin.
I picked him up at the Greyhound station in Baton Rouge, and after a night with us, brought him to The Levee Landing on Bayou Courtableau, the put-in for the Upper Courtableau trail. Tanya Dupre, the owner, was paying some of her patrons in boiled crawfish and beer to build her an awning. Uwe began to set up his folding canoe. As the work wound down, the erstwhile carpenters drifted over the see what was going on. Uwe was missing some parts, probably due to careless bag inspections in New Orleans. The locals offered some suggestions, and then invited him to eat crawfish with them. They seemed to get along famously. I picked him up eleven days later in Morgan City, and after getting him cleaned up and fed, dropped him at a car rental in Lafayette. Uwe said he plans to emigrate to northern Canada to be a hunter and a trapper!
James 4:03 PM [+]
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