New Orleans - Day 2
Figured since spending an extra night in New Orleans a trip to see more hurricane damage was in order, so headed south to the southern most tip of Louisiana, Grand Isle – this is a bike trip, so probably should be riding every day. The ride started out with some more damage of my own though – yep, dropped the bike again. Ok, no excuses, but hell the streets in downtown New Orleans suck. While trying to park in front of the hotel, put my foot down just to have it slip into the curb and with that my bike tipping to the curb – no help from the engine guard either, but just a couple scratches on the bags…isn’t that what we have insurance for?
The ride was a hot one with the temps already in the mid 90’s, but heading to the gulf was the right call cuz the closer to the water you got, the cooler the temps got. From the highway south the trip was along a canal which had a lot of shrimp boats…no, not the Bubba Gump Shrimper’s but smaller versions and with that a lot of small mom and pop fresh shrimp and crab shacks – do you think a lot of people drive along there just to pickup fresh shrimp? Well, since that’s all I saw and you know how subliminal advertising works, a fresh shrimp lunch would make for a good stop so stopped at one of the few restaurants I saw along the way – oh yea, and it is right across the street from a fresh shrimp place. Did have me thinking there’s been a lot of seafood eaten by me this week, but hey it’s all been fresh and when it’s this fresh it’s that much better – doesn’t have that fishy smell.
Found out the damage might not be as bad as first thought either cuz apparently Katrina just skirted East of the Grand Isle, but you can see there was obviously some damage done. From there it was back to New Orleans to get ready to light it up for another night and hey, I picked a good night to stay in town, election night. Had to stop at the Bourbon Cowboy again to visit Colleen and Rose for the 2fer1 special before dinner and from there it was in search of a Mufaletta sandwich – heard ya gotta have one while in New Orleans. Well, the place I went to didn’t have the original version of the sandwich, an Italian joint, but the pizza version was excellent so spent the time there with a number of people tuned into the tv – remember it’s election night? From there it was back to Bourbon street and things were really hopping, that many more people than the night before and for some reason there were a lot of them dressed up – ok, remember, election night. Not sure if they were partying because of the results, hoping for the results, but probably just an excuse to party. Ok, didn’t get many shots from the street, but I wasn’t there to take pictures, just to have a good time. You can see by some of the shots I did take during the day, the damage to the Super dome, the hotel and comfy room I got to stay in and oh yea, and how you like how they park their cars downtown – that was something to see. Tomorrow it’s west young man. Day2 NO pics.
The ride was a hot one with the temps already in the mid 90’s, but heading to the gulf was the right call cuz the closer to the water you got, the cooler the temps got. From the highway south the trip was along a canal which had a lot of shrimp boats…no, not the Bubba Gump Shrimper’s but smaller versions and with that a lot of small mom and pop fresh shrimp and crab shacks – do you think a lot of people drive along there just to pickup fresh shrimp? Well, since that’s all I saw and you know how subliminal advertising works, a fresh shrimp lunch would make for a good stop so stopped at one of the few restaurants I saw along the way – oh yea, and it is right across the street from a fresh shrimp place. Did have me thinking there’s been a lot of seafood eaten by me this week, but hey it’s all been fresh and when it’s this fresh it’s that much better – doesn’t have that fishy smell.
Found out the damage might not be as bad as first thought either cuz apparently Katrina just skirted East of the Grand Isle, but you can see there was obviously some damage done. From there it was back to New Orleans to get ready to light it up for another night and hey, I picked a good night to stay in town, election night. Had to stop at the Bourbon Cowboy again to visit Colleen and Rose for the 2fer1 special before dinner and from there it was in search of a Mufaletta sandwich – heard ya gotta have one while in New Orleans. Well, the place I went to didn’t have the original version of the sandwich, an Italian joint, but the pizza version was excellent so spent the time there with a number of people tuned into the tv – remember it’s election night? From there it was back to Bourbon street and things were really hopping, that many more people than the night before and for some reason there were a lot of them dressed up – ok, remember, election night. Not sure if they were partying because of the results, hoping for the results, but probably just an excuse to party. Ok, didn’t get many shots from the street, but I wasn’t there to take pictures, just to have a good time. You can see by some of the shots I did take during the day, the damage to the Super dome, the hotel and comfy room I got to stay in and oh yea, and how you like how they park their cars downtown – that was something to see. Tomorrow it’s west young man. Day2 NO pics.
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