We are about to leave Dallas for Amarillo but the last 2 stops we had were so good I thought they deserve their own post.
New Orleans met us with much anticipation and expectations of being a highlight of the trip... and for the most part it delivered! The French Quarter where we spent most of our time was beautiful during the daylight hours, the grand old French and Spanish buildings and statues seemed very out of place in modern America, but come sunset and the dirty old drunk men seemed to just leak out onto Bourbon street, and it was most definitely America again. We had a hurricane-like drink called a hand grenade that was so sweet and so sour it was an effort to get through just one. Our airboat tour of some swamps was very cool, the 'swamp people' lure the 'gators close to the boat by using what they call swamp crack (marshmallows), and we got to hold a baby one too!
Memphis and its main drag Beale St was like a cleaner nicer version of New Orleans and was a very cool town to hear some live music which was playing in pretty much every bar and restaurant, and being St Patricks day which the Americans celebrate much more enthusiastically than we do it was a very fun place to be in. We checked out Elvis's ridiculously styled Graceland mansion (multi-coloured curtains on the ceiling anyone?) and tried some deliciously healthy local peach cobbler and fried chicken.
L + D
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