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2 Straccos back in New Orleans
... one beautiful photo of the event.
I watched Morpheus, Krewe d'etat, and Hermes with Yis, Greg, Lauren, Eddie, Marianna, Annie, and a bunch more people at Constantinople and St. Charles and also in front of Superior Grill. Got a shot with Bibo! Bicycling during Mardi Gras is so much fun. I caught many dubloons from all of the Krewes.
The next day the skies opened and dumped a torrent down on New Orleans. ...
Southern Hospitality in Louisiana
After leaving Houston and heading for Florida we decided to essentially drive through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and spend more time on the way back through. But after Sebastian had a melt down half way through Louisiana we decided to pull into the nearest state park and gee was it a good decision. Fountainbleu State Park was exactly what we have been missing. It was so much fun and just like the start of ...
Amtrak is amazing - fact
... by what they see on the streets and have closed their eyes from it. I never know what comes first the community or those things needed to perpetuate it. The people who are there all seem to want to stay there, and stay together so maybe they have all been forgotten? Was it the economy, as from what I could see Memphis has no longer got any industry and the mighty river isn’t used for trade as it once was? Whatever got under the skin of Memphis it has ...
City of the Dead
... process. Apparently sometimes when they opened a coffin which had been stored in a holding area prior to putting them in the above ground burial area they sometimes found scratch marks on the lid - they didn't know much about comas in those days - anyway they then devised a system of having holes in the side of coffins and tied a piece of string to the finger of the deceased which was linked to a bell. From this came the saying "Saved by the bell" as ...
Taking It Easy
... We also ventured out of the city one day for a swamp tour. We had our first experience on a bayou and got to see alligators, raccoons and exotic birds in their natural habitat.
The highlight has to be the introduction to Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers. Yes, that's his real name! He's acclaimed as the best trumpeter in New Orleans, quite a feat as this city is regarded as the home of jazz. It was big-smiled King Lanaux who suggested it and ...