Greetings from the Big Easy.  We are still here but yesterday I wasn’t able to write of our day as last night we played Mexican Train with our friends from Colorado.  

Yesterday was a day to just visit  and enjoy the sights and sounds of the city.  We especially wanted to get pictures of Jackson Square and the Cathedral named after St Louis the King of France.  It was a gift from him after we won our independence from the British.  Walt Disney patterned Cinderella’s Castle after this structure.  It is the second most photographed site in the US.  You guessed it, Walt’s Disneyland castle is the most photographed.

We walked through the French Quarter where they have a market that reminded us of Pikes St Market in Seattle.  It was a fun place but real busy.  There were several musicians playing my kind of music so I sat and listened while Claudia did some shopping.

All of the restaurants on the main streets were busy with people waiting to get in.  So we decided to walk  the quieter streets where we found art galleries galore and a very nice restaurant that had windows open to the outside.  We had Sunday brunch in a setting to die for.  Real classy.  It was a perfect day to end our visit.

Today was a rest and cleaning day.  We did some wash and cleaned the motorhome.  Did I mention that this RV has a built in vacuum system?  We are really roughing it in our new coach.  We love it.

While Claudia was waiting for the wash to dry she talked to a fellow traveller that mentioned a great spot in Alabama.  She said the beaches are beautiful and they are a lot more dog friendly then Florida.  We’ll stop there before our swing north.   Tomorrow we are going just 90 miles from here to a state park in Mississippi.  We will meet our Col. friends there before we part ways.  I am not real keen on spending any time in Miss. because of the state’s past.  It just takes me back to the 60s when there was so much strife and sadness in the land.  Going across the Huey H . Long bridge here in LA was bad enough.  He was one bad dude during the 60’s equal rights marches .

There is so much to see and do here.  So our measly few pictures just don’t do it justice.

Again we miss all of you but the road beckons once again so we’ll be talking to you soon.

Love

Gary & Claudia