We’re back from New Orleans! I’ve been too busy trying to catch up on stuff to type. Also, I’ll have more about it when I get through photo-editing*.
The short version:
NEW ORLEANS IS SO MUCH FUN. I could’ve stayed there… well, permanently.
We met a bunch of awesome people. We heard a lot of great music, including a reggae show and an impromptu brass band show on a streetcorner. We walked so much I got killer blisters and had to limp, but we kept on walking. We took a riverboat cruise up the Mississippi River to see a battlefield, because we’re that kind of nerd.
We had all the classic cocktails invented there, including the Sazerac and absinthe drip. I want to believe seeing that old lady’s naked ass being spanked on Bourbon Street was an absinthe-related hallucination, but I know that’s not the case at all.
We also drove through Mississippi and Alabama and didn’t get threatened or killed once. In fact, it was downright pleasant! We laid on the beach in Alabama, and won some money gambling in Mississippi.
We also met a man named Beau who did the worm for us on a barroom floor shortly before we had to head back to Minnesota. It was the best kind of farewell for New Orleans: a completely ridiculous one.
Seems like Bally had a pretty great time, too.
*My camera rolled over 10,000 photos and had to start renumbering at 1 again. Whoa.
Amazing pictures! I love seeing the old houses down south, but Louisiana and Mississippi seem to have the best picturesque ones.
Glad you guys had a good time.
thanks! and, yeah, the houses in the garden district in particular are amazing. i love savannah and charleston for that, too!
more! more! glad you had an awesome time. i can’t wait to go back. TO STAY FOREVER AND EVER.
seriously. can we just set up a restaurant there?
Sounds like such a fun trip! ‘Bama beaches are surprisingly nice! Can’t wait to see more pics…