It’s the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar. We rode it to the end and back so we could see all of The Garden District. The next day we came again and walked.
Everyone has seen pictures of New Orleans cemeteries, or read about them, and I wanted to walk through one myself.
The tombs were very close together, and you can see a long list of the people that are buried inside some of them.
These were well maintained, but some are very unloved looking.
I loved these huge, old houses, and our handy Frommer’s Guide I printed out told us something about many of them. Too bad I didn’t keep better notes.
Doesn’t this one look inviting, with it’s broad porch and balcony, and the huge fence to keep nosey tourists out.
This house I do remember because we were caught in a rain shower here. It’s Archie Manning’s house, where the little Manning boys played football on the front lawn. The house doesn’t look very large at first, but it goes back a long way and then stretches to the sides.
Most of the houses have fences around them. Nice fences, not chain link.
I think this is John Goodman’s house.
This is Commander’s Palace Restaurant. We didn’t eat here, dress code: no shorts. Beth and her friends ate here, on the patio.
The trees along St. Charles St. were loaded with beads thrown during the Mardi Gras parades. They never take them down because it’s supposed to be bad luck if you remove them.
The night before we did our walking tour one of these huge old beauties caught fire while they were renovating it and burned down.
I just had to stop at each one and admire it. Bob was very patient with me.
After our walking tour we went back the French Quarter had lunch at Pat O'Brien's, and this time the girls told me to try a Hurricane. That was good stuff!!! So were the jambalaya, beans and rice, gumbo, and crawfish etouffee. I tried it all!
After all that eating and drinking in the French Quarter, the next day we went for a bike ride along the Mississippi River Levee.
The river is deep and wide and we saw a lot of ships and barges during our 25 mile bike trip.
It’s a nice place for a bike ride with no traffic to worry about.
This is one of the famous pumps on the Mississippi River. Remember hearing about them during the hurricane? They have them spaced every mile or two along the levee.
If you ride the levee trail south it ends at a park near the zoo.
In true Hidden River RV Resort tradition, we stopped for lunch on our bike ride, and this time we had some good food at Cooter Brown’s.
Bob had a muffaletta and I had an oyster poboy but, after reading the menu more carefully, maybe we should have had the Coonass Special. So good you wanna slap yo mamma! Bob said that’s ok. It just gives us another reason to come back to New Orleans.
It’s almost time to leave New Orleans but we took a side trip to see two plantations. That’s our next blog post.
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