Budapest, Mon Amour

And: What Christ Saved Us From; An Unexpected Vienna Trip

That’s me trying my first beer at the Bayou Sara Brewing Company in St. Francisville. Behind me is the painting my cousin Rae Lynne did from the snapshot of Abby Cochran (left) and my late sister Ruthie, dancing on the bar at Angelle’s Whiskey River Landing, a Cajun dance hall over in the Atchafalaya Swamp. That must have been sometime in the mid-2000s.…