Also New Orleans

We spent another day bear New Orleans driving to the Delta.  My geology geekiness has wanted to do this forever, so, of we went.

We headed over the Causeway, and around New Orleans. I was driving, which is significant because, silly as it sounds, I really get nervous driving over water.  I can drive bridges over land, and even over decent gorges, but, over water, I really get white knuckled.  And this was a 24-mile drive.  (Fun Fact:  If you do it in 19 minutes, you get a ticket, because they know you were speeding.)  But I managed a smile, and a wave.


First things first:  we stopped for lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall kind of place.  We had Bayou rolls; "egg rolls" made with seafood.  Then we had gumbo; two kinds, seafood, and chicken/sausage.  We finished by sharing a shrimp poboy.  7 hours later, we were still full!




We drove down the west side of the delta.  It was more industrial, more "messy."  We couldn't see the river, because of the levees.  John tried turning off the main road, but we got into a plant of some sort, and there were signs warning us to stay away.  A little further down the road, he tried another turn. This one was more successful.  Not only were we not warned to leave or else, we found a ferry across the Mississippi.  So we took it.  


We drove up the east side of the river, stopped for coffee, (and king cake!  'Tis the season!) and were home about suppertime.  Which we did not eat; see paragraph 3.

All in all, a lovely day.


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