The Jazz Quarters at the Chartres Marigny New Orleans
1418 Chartres St. New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, United States
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Today is one month that we've been on the road. So far, so good! ;o) I'm excited to report that Roger has started reading another book (The Descendants). He's on Chapter 3 already. We plan to go to the movie with Lois when we're in San Antonio.
We connected up with Brie & Ryan on Facebook chat again this morning. They had gone to the Killing Fields in Cambodia today (when we talked to ...
Nawleens. Straight up, y’all
... the vault, it gets sealed and swelters
like an oven in the Southern heat and the body decomposes fast and to
basically nothing. Then, when it’s time for the next body to go in, the vault
is opened, and the remains are pushed into the shaft at the bottom or the back.
This way there’s room for the whole family, as in dozens, all in the one tomb.
And there, my friends, we have the term: ‘To get shafted!’ Dead ...
New Orleans...What a Place!!!
... they have a free concert in the park with fantastic jazz performances and cheap food and drinks. With about a thousand people, we boogied it up to an awesome sax and trombone player. Such a great idea to bring people together. It runs only from 5-7.30pm and everyone is eating food and drinks from local businesses. It was fantastic.
As night fell we walked back downtown along the mississippi river and looked out at the harbor ...
Ghouls and Jazz
... of a bust by the fire brigade revealing locked up slaves all deformed from experiments. She told us Nicholas Cage was the most recent owner of the house but that it had recently been sold. There were more gruesome stories of murder including a guy who killed his girlfriend and kept her in a trunk, the body was only discovered during Hurricaine Katrina when the trunk was found. Another where playful children at an orphanage turned Jackson Hotel who took photo’s ...
Big E-Z
... was when our train was derailed in our sleep, as there was massive storms across the coast-hence a tree across the tracks, leading to a six hour delay (insert sarcasm here). All in all, a 36 hour train ride before pulling into Penn. Station. Made a voodoo doll of Thomas the Tank Engine. Take that buddy.
“Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.” Unknown
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