… and, we’re back
End of the road(trip) 2012 So, after an overnight flight, we arrived back in cold London. Well, colder than Houston, anyway! We saw a lot of things, ate a lot of good food, heard lots of good music and sampled some decent local beers, too. Although, somewhat ironically, the one most prevalent seemed to be Blue Moon from Denver! After unpacking, redistributing clothing, food items and various souvenirs (and trying not to fall asleep) started looking at the hundreds of photos and realise I have some work to do! We drove 1,589 miles, saw countryside ranging from mountains to beach...
Turn out the lights… Elvis has left New Orleans!
So, Monday wasn’t worth reporting. ‘Why’ you ask? We spent eight hours in a mall! No, don’t ask, my mind is still boggled. So today, we had coffee and beignets at Cafe du Monde, a coffee house and bakery that’s been there since 1862, pretty old for the U.S. Good coffee and great beignets! Then we went Uptown to meet Gaither Pope, a friend of a friend I met via Facebook, a painter and teacher at Nichols State University. We met at the gallery that shows his work and went for a Cubano sandwich, a mixture of pulled pork, ham...
Wrasslin’ gators and meeting Swamp People
We met a real Cajun, today, “Captain Earl”. He threatened to leave us all in the swamp when none of us admitted to having watched Swamp People. But. He did let us all have a go at holding his cute little alligator, “Fluffy”. Anyone who has an 18 inch long alligator called Fluffy can’t be all bad. “Don’t strangle my ‘gator – if I don’t come home with Fluffy, my wife’ll kill me.” At times it reminded Me of the safari I did in Africa, when all the swamp boats clustered around a group of gators – much like they...
River Queen, take me to Mother’s
And the heavens opened… We decided to go to New Orleans landmark Mother’s today for breakfast – great idea, shame about the weather. Debs and I set out early, just wanting to get out of the hotel, and found ourselves outside the Plaza d’Italia building. “I worked on a project based around this plaza,” I said. And I had. While still at University of Colorado, one of my instructors was partial to the Piazza, and constructed a project around it. I don’t remember doing very well, but it stuck with me, as evidenced by my reaction today. It’s been refurbished...
