Yesterday we walked in New Orleans’ City Park and had lunch in the Garden District. Today we drove 225 miles west to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
New Orleans' City Park is bigger than Manhattan’s Central Park, and was extensively damaged by Hurricane Katrina (over 1,000 trees toppled.) It has a botanical garden, amusement park, athletic fields, a sculpture garden, and I read that its the 7th most visited city park in the country. We took a walk in the arboretum.
Afterwards, we had lunch and did some grocery shopping in New Orleans’ Garden District. What a pretty place. The area was developed with only a couple of houses per block and the homes were surrounded by gardens; hence the name. Now it’s more urbanized, but the architecture is lovely and there are lots of little shops and restaurants. A music festival was going on, so it was hopping.
This morning we left for Lake Charles, Louisiana. It feels nice to be headed west.
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| Jim hiking at the New Orleans City Park. The foliage definitely has a tropical feel. However, it also has a lot of oak trees. |
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| At City Park we met students from Tulane who were watering the 111 trees they planted on 11-11-11. |
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| A cool looking patio at the park, made of tree trunks and branches. |
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| We had lunch at this little deli in the Garden District. Tulane University is nearby. |
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| As we drove through Lafayette, LA we actually saw this drive-through daiquiri shop. |
We were going to suggest that you take the St. Charles Line (trolley) Out to the Camellia Diner. A great place to eat cheap food an mix with locals who like deep fried food. The couple next to us, who lived in the Garden District, kept ordering stuff, (fried Mac & Cheese, twice fried eggs, fried pecan pie, etc) and giving it to us saying "You must try this!" I still get cholesterol induced heart pangs just rmembering it. The St. Charles Line goes past the Audoubon Zoo, Tulane and Layola NOLA. Since you were out in that area without my advise, it seems you do pretty well on your own. Go figure. Sandy also liked walking through the above ground cemetaries, of course, I went with her, but was in a cold sweat the entire time.
ReplyDeleteWe were also glad to see that you are still making your stir fries, cajun stirfry yesterday, tex-mex stirfry tomarrow.
Love Carl and Sandy
I did a city tour in NOLA some years back and the cemeteries was part of that. It was very interesting, so I'm with Sandy on that. All that fried stuff sounds great, but I'd be in a food coma afterwards. If you have any ideas on things to do near the Texas gulf, send them along. Hope you guys (y'all) are well.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Drive-in Daiquiri shop and you didn't get one or several?
ReplyDeleteSteve: I went through my mind. The one bad thing about an RV is spontaneous acts like "hey, let's do a u-ey and go get a daiquiri" are usually not workable. However, I picked up some wine in the grocery store yesterday. Give Thelx a hug from me.
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