The New Orleans Jazz Quarters
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Bring me a holiday and make it snappy
I took time off in New Orleans. That's right actual time off. That means spending quality time with one of my closest friends in the world, John Williams, who travelled to New Orleans with me from the Joyfully Jobless Jamboree in Austin, Texas.
It was wonderful to have John with me after time on the road. Together we free-ranged around …
Ups and downs in New Orleans
... and a couple of military ships. It was so hot though, in the 90s and although we sun creamed up we both ended up with patches of sunburn. My face is red with white panda eyes. I have no idea how it happened as the sun was behind us! Alan has a pink triangle at the top of his chest from the v of his t shirt. On our way back to the hotel we stopped by the car and it had one completely flat tyre. When we were driving down to New Orleans the ...
The Crescent City
... and the coffins popped out of the ground and were found floating down the Mississippi River. When that strategy wasn't working, someone needed to come up with another way of burying their loved ones. So everyone is buried above ground. The body is put in a chamber above ground and left for 1 year and 1 day to "self-cremate". The above ground chambers (they look like little houses) are built so that they intense heat of this ...
Day 15 - New Orleans, Louisiana
... rest of the night was spent listening to music, drinking and dancing. We had an absolute ball and can't believe we've got another three nights of this! Woo hoo...if we thought Memphis was going to be a drunken haze then New Orleans will probably blow our heads off. Thankfully the photos are a good clue as to what went on! We stumbled home at 11.00pm and went straight to sleep, ready for a big day of exploring this crazy place by day tomorrow.
Until then xxx
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Cross country really means something in America
... Amtrak site one of the highlights of this route as seeing the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, despite the fact that in either direction, for most of the year at least, it is dark when going through. I think i may have caught a fleeting glimpse of something mountainous in the distance, but who knows. I'm not sure if US mountains are actually mountains, or if, like the Welsh, they'll call anything that involves going up a steep hill a mountain.Having picked myself ...
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