Greetings from New Orleans.  We arrived yesterday afternoon after a trip of just 130 miles.  My kind of driving.

But before I say anything about our present location I must make a correction on our previous entry.  I mentioned that the Atchafalaya basin waterway looked like the Willamette river.  Not!  When we left Breaux Bridge and headed east the first thing that we noticed was the bridge over the river.  What a bridge it was as it turns out that the bridge is the second longest  in the US at 18 miles!   Sooo it looks like the river is that wide and as we proceeded east it was amazing what we saw.  Simply an endless body of water covered with water plants and small islands.  It makes the Willamette look like a trickle in comparison.  Ok I got that issue off my chest.  Phew.

This morning we took the ferry across the Missippi and walked off directly into the historic district of the city.  What an amazing place and just like we have all read about but more. The first thing we did was go directly to Cafe DuMonde where we had our obligatory coffee and beignet.  The place was packed with happy people getting charged up for the day.  

Afterwards we were accosted by a carriage driver that sucked us into a tour of the French Quarter.  It was the best thing that we could have done as he gave us an idea how the district was laid out.  We are still blown away by  the age of the buildings and the history of the place.  Our driver grew up there and had amazing stories to tell.  

We drove down most of the length of Bourbon St. and true to what we have all seen on TV it is a pretty wild place.  Loud music and lots of drinking.  Again just amazing old historic buildings.

After all of that exertion we just had to have lunch and the driver gave us the name of his favorite restaurant.  It was called the Gumbo Shop and of course I had to have another bowl of gumbo.  I just love that stuff.  It’s interesting as they called it Cajun gumbo at our last stop but here in the District it is called Creole gumbo.  I think because of the French influence in the city.  

I could go on and on but you get the idea and besides we have to get ready for our TV show “Blue Bloods.”

Talk to you later