Day 9 to Day 11 New Orleans

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We arrived in New Orleans at mid day on Wednesday where we have a site for 3 nights in a luxury RV park within walking distance of the French Quarter with a pool and hot tub (which we have used) and our very own gazebo. It’s laid out like a small town with brick paved streets and street lamps. First order of business was laundry having been out for 8 days already.

Pool, hot tub, bar area
We have enjoyed sitting in our own gazebo. It has a swing.

I’ll just tell you what we did and not in a lot of detail. Of course we wandered around the French Quarter with its emphasis on booze, food and jazz, both in the streets and indoors. Night time is deemed dangerous so any time we were out after dark, we called a Lyft to take us back to the campsite.

I may just put up a lot of photos.

Jackson Square, monument to Jackson and the Cabildo to the left of the cathedral where the Louisiana purchase was signed.
Street music
Relaxing with a beer
Who knew that the author Wm Faulkner wrote his first book here

Typical architecture in the French Quartet
More street music. It’s pretty much everywhere.
Typical cemetery. They were all closed so we couldn’t get into them

Typical beautiful home in the Garden district
Garden district
Many homes are a single room wide and several rooms deep, called a shotgun house. The rooms are in a line from front to back and you walk through one to get to the next one. This is for ventilation.
This was originally a double shotgun house.
A walk through Audubon Park
Black whistling duck, very gregarious, quite small and very noisy. Their behaviors are more akin to geese than ducks.
Japanese camelia
Yellow Iris
The St. Charles Street trolley. For $3 each we could ride around for 24 hours.
Sazerac house,  the flagship store for a large alcohol producing conglomerate that own such brands as Myers Rum, Buffalo trace bourbon, Fireball cinnamon whiskey. You name it. They own it.
Self explanatory
An evening of jazz at Mahogany Hall bar with the New Orleans Catahoulas. Excellent musicians.
Cafe du Monde for beignets. I fail to understand why people would line up for hours just to buy donuts. You can get them anywhere. We had them for dessert one night with praline sauce.
More street scenes
A Voodoo market. Just fun walking around one of these.
The Steamboat Natchez, the only remaining steam driven paddle wheeler on the Mississippi. We took a 2 hour tourist / New Orleans history tour on this.

We took

View of New Orleans from the Mississippi River on the Natchez
Being pharmacists, we just had to visit this museum. The original owner was the first licensed pharmacists in North America in the early 1800s.
The original soda fountain.
Just apothecary jars etc.
Buffet brunch at the Court of 2 Sisters.

By the time we finished lunch at 3:30 pm we were also finished with New Orleans. The holiday crowd ( it was Good Friday) had moved into the French Quarter. We’d seen what we wanted to and had a couple of excellent meals. We walked back to the RV where we relaxed with a beer in the hot tub, had showers and watched a movie.

All good stuff. Saturday we only have a half hour drive to our next stop, St. Bernard State Park with some War of 1812 history along the way.

Well I do have to orovide some history of New Orleans so with the help of my Chatbot AI app, here we go, keeping it simple.

New Orleans

New Orleans, located in the southeastern region of the United States, has a rich and diverse history. The area was originally inhabited by Native American tribes before being settled by French colonists in 1718. The city was named after Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, who was the Regent of France at the time.

Throughout its history, New Orleans has been influenced by a variety of cultures, including French, Spanish, African, and Caribbean. This cultural mix is evident in the city’s architecture, cuisine, music, and traditions.

One of the most significant events in New Orleans history is the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, which doubled the size of the United States and brought the city under American control. The city became an important port and trading center, attracting people from around the world.

New Orleans is also famous for its unique musical heritage, including jazz, blues, and zydeco. The city’s annual Mardi Gras celebrations, with their elaborate parades and masked balls, are known worldwide.

In addition to its cultural contributions, New Orleans has faced challenges throughout its history, including devastating hurricanes and floods. The most notable of these was Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which caused widespread destruction and loss of life.

Despite these challenges, New Orleans has persevered and remains a vibrant and culturally rich city with a unique identity that continues to attract visitors from around the world.