We’ve moved again, we have been in New
Orleans for the last few days, camped in Bayou Segnette
State Park on the west
bank. It’s an interesting place with a flood control dike running thru it. I’m
assuming the campground is on the safe side of the dike but there’s water on
both sides so, who knows? Anyhow it’s very convenient to the French Quarter via
the Algier’s passenger ferry.
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| By the French Market |
How do I describe New
Orleans? As the old idiom says, it is all things to
all people. From the party scene of Bourbon
Street to the interesting architecture of the Garden
District, it is indeed the most eclectic city of the antebellum south.
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| The French Quarter |
Admittedly a brief visit we hit most of the tourist spots;
The French Quarter, St Charles street Trolley, the Garden District, cemeteries,
the French Market, Jackson Square, the waterfront park and Bourbon Street.
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| Interestingly there are very few epitaphs on the grave markers here, just names and dates. |
We enjoyed a delicious lunch at the Old Coffee Pot Cafe
which has been serving guests in the French Quarter since 1894. Afterward we
planned on getting beignets for desert from Cafe Do Monte but so did every
other tourist in town. We opted to not stand in the long line for what is essentially
a powdered sugar covered donut.
Our feet were tired when we boarded the Algiers
ferry for our mini cruise across the Mississippi
to our jeep and a short ride back to the campground.
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