Blogs from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America - page 51

This morning after we got ready and ate breakfast we quickly cleaned the van and trailer as it was getting pretty filthy then set off to New Orleans. We arrived mid afternoon and went straight to the hotel to drop off our stuff. Tonight we were staying altogether in a large house like room which was made up of two separate quarters. We ran around choosing our beds and bringing our gear in before it was time to catch a boat down the Mississippi river. We walked down to the pier, bought tickets and before long we were sailing down the river getting amazing views of the city of New Orleans. Some areas of New Orleans were still looking a little rough and run down due to hurricane Katrina, even though that was two years ago. ... read more

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update at last. I am not in New Orleans now in fact I left there a week maybe 2 ago but I have been so busy with travelling, talking to people, going out, boozing, walking, buying, sleeping, hiking, shooting, getting driven round etc that I have not had time to update this thing. Add to that, each blog takes roughly 2 hours to do what with typing the entry, loading the pics, sorting them and checking corrections - it takes a lot out of my time to do and I can't do it on the pay internet machines coz it would cost too much and they don't work anyway!! I am on someonme's personal computer and as it takes soo long and I think they don't want me on here for ages, and I gotta ... read more

Hey from the Big Easy otherwise Known as New Orleans, after leaving our crime spree of mississippi, we headed of our next state of Louisana, first stop was a swamp tour to see the alligators, the swamp where we did this was badly ravaged by hurricane Katrina and while some have rebuilt their swamp shacks some have just be left to rot, it was here that the hurricane actually hit and while the clean up is immense, after 2 years there is still more to be done. it started to hit me here how much damage was caused and how life must of changed. Our swamp guide reminded me of the nutty professor in every way and was great with his stories and had the most bizarre accent which all he could say was the accent ... read more

I had to return to my favorite vacation destination. I hadn't seen Monique for almost a year and a half so it was definitely time for a visit. Because this was my fourth visit to New Orleans, we did a lot of hanging out just catching up. We did get to my favorite po'boy shop for a crab cake po'boy though! Monique and I sang karoke at Razoos in the afternoon and then headed to the casino at night to watch the Saints game. After the game, we partied with Moni's mom and her friend at a little dive bar in Metaire. Friday, Moni and I got makeovers and went to dinner at Drago's. Chargrilled oysters are amazingly good. We went to Harrah's after dinner for some more partying! Saturday, we went to Baton Rouge to ... read more

We arrived in New Orleans at 2:00pm. We drove through the narrow streets in search of our hotel. Once we found it, we pulled into the parking garage and tried to check in. Our room wasn’t ready yet, so we checked our bags and left to make our way around the French Quarter. It was everything I had imagined it to be. I love the brick buildings, the elaborate décor on the balconies…you could even hear some Zydeco music in the distance. Our first stop was to Café Beignet for some tasty snacks. We shared an iced lemonade and Jared had a pecan tart and some tabasco flavored potato chips. I had a pecan turtle that was just made! We did some window shopping…the art galleries are plentiful down there. The one thing I noticed was ... read more