French Quarter District

New Orleans

October 13th 2011
On our way to New Orleans on I-55, we drove on the “Bonnett Carre Spillway", an impressive 20-30 miles causeway over swamp land. The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley and a floodway that transfers the diverted flood waters to the lake Pontchartrain. We arrived early afternoon at our hotel in the heart of French Quarters and convenient walking ... read more

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http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/WanderlustTour/ The Wanderlust tour across America. You may ask yourself: "What is the Wanderlust Tour?" Well let me begin by saying that I love to travel. I've worked over 25 years and September 22nd, 2011 was my last day at work. I'm going into a "semi" retirement mode and plan to travel across the USA. I'm traveling with my parents and my beautiful sister in law who will join us a bit later and complete the tour with us. If you've ever heard the term "Bucket List", well, it's a list of acco... full info

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