A report shows Louisianans are not using 8.9 million vacation days a year, 27th most in the nation. Of the 17 days a year Louisianans do take, only eight are for travel, so Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says now is a great time to start planning your “Staycations” for this year. To start, he recommends the overlooked beauty of a bayou southwest of New Orleans.
“In Bayou Segnette we have these floating cabins that float up and down and were built just after Katrina so that they would never flood again. They are right on the water there, there’s a great wave pool in that state park.”
Nationwide, 705 million vacation days go unused.
Once you wrap up your trip to Bayou Segnette, The Lt. Governor recommends driving west to Lake Charles, staying at one of the new resorts, and then driving just north for one of the most haunted destinations in the state.
“You have the Gothic Jail, the last place in Louisiana where a person was hung. You’ve got claims of ghosts there, there’s actually pictures of ghosts.”
Louisianans earned a total of 34.7 million days off, which means they did not use a quarter of their earned days.
After you get your scares, Nungesser recommends loading the family in the car and visiting central and north Louisiana, which is becoming a hotbed of WW2 era historical must-sees. With one weekend trip to Alexandria and then Monroe, you can cover both theaters of the war.
“You’ve got the Bentley Hotel where part of the D-Day invasion was planned. Then you’ve got the Chennault Museum. General Chennault of the Flying Tigers, he went to China and taught the Chinese to fly.”
The report notes people who plan their vacations ahead of time were more likely to utilize all of their vacation days than those who don’t.
