Category Archives: Louisiana
Pontchartrain-World’s Longest Bridge!
The elevator wasn’t working this morning, so it made for a great workout making multiple last minute trips up and down 5 flights of stairs to check out by eleven. We stopped at an above ground graveyard just because it was different and we were driving past it. We drove across Pontchartrain, the world’s longest bridge-it was [...]
New Orleans and The Ten Dollar Beer
We spent a couple nights at the Canal Street Inn which was a comfortable walking distance to Bourbon Street. There were homeless people hanging out under the bridge across the street. In the morning, when I went down for breakfast a homeless guy came in and asked if he could take something to eat. I said, “sure.” [...]
Driving & Exploring Louisiana
We spent the night outside a state park by a marina. We were hoping to stay at the park, but the employees came honking and knocking on our window at 8:55 to let us know the park was about to close. So we paid a buck and parked at the marina instead. Today has been [...]
Louisiana
Pretty straight course through Louisiana so far-we went to Intercoastal City, which turned out to be a dead end without even a gas station. They seem to be sparse in these parts. We were on Hwy 82. It’s already getting dark and lightly sprinkling. It rained non-stop the whole night on the border between Texas [...]
New Orleans, Mississippi Riverboat Cruise
We went to New Orleans for New Year’s Eve. We were out past 2 A.m. We walked around Bourbon Street stopping at all kinds of interesting places. People were so friendly and chatty, it was fun just talking to people. We had a little wait before our dinner cruise, so we stopped in a place [...]