Day 14, (Saturday, July 12th)
From: Houston, TX
To: New Orleans, LA
Miles: 660
Time in the car: 9 hours
Weather conditions: Sunny
Traffic conditions: OK with some road work
Pictures:
Today’s road:
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Events: (Times given in CST)
09:30 AM, Leaving Herve’s place
12:00 PM, Crossing border to Louisiana
05:15 PM, Arrived in New Orleans
10:00 PM, Crossing border to Alabama
11:15 PM, Crossing border to Florida
12:30 AM, Arrived at the hotel
After a great French breakfast with some croissant (BIG thank you again!!). We took the road to reach Baton Rouge which was the first stop we wanted to make in Louisiana. There is the city where the capitol state is and the Mississippi river pass by. With the hot hot weather there, we didn’t stay too long and went back on the road to go to New Orleans.
Once arrived there, we parked the car close by the French quarters (also known as Vieux Carre). We walked around to see this specific style which actually comes from Spain and not France (see the pictures). We had diner in a nice place. I had some blue crab... the one who loose the shell. We walked around and especially in Bourbon street where we can see 2 things: Music (mostly jazz, but other kind of music are there) and sex business. I was a bit surprised to see this in there ... but what can I say!! The effects from Katrina are absolutely not present so we tried to go by car around and see. Since we didn’t know where to go, we couldn’t find the place to see, not a big deal. We stopped by the lake which was the cause of the damages (The lake Pontchartrain).
With the road we had to do tomorrow, we decided to drive few more hours before finding a hotel. We went 4 hours farer than what we expected for that day, it will help us tomorrow before reaching Miami!!!!
To: New Orleans, LA
Miles: 660
Time in the car: 9 hours
Weather conditions: Sunny
Traffic conditions: OK with some road work
Pictures:
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Today’s road:
View Larger Map
Events: (Times given in CST)
09:30 AM, Leaving Herve’s place
12:00 PM, Crossing border to Louisiana
05:15 PM, Arrived in New Orleans
10:00 PM, Crossing border to Alabama
11:15 PM, Crossing border to Florida
12:30 AM, Arrived at the hotel
After a great French breakfast with some croissant (BIG thank you again!!). We took the road to reach Baton Rouge which was the first stop we wanted to make in Louisiana. There is the city where the capitol state is and the Mississippi river pass by. With the hot hot weather there, we didn’t stay too long and went back on the road to go to New Orleans.
Once arrived there, we parked the car close by the French quarters (also known as Vieux Carre). We walked around to see this specific style which actually comes from Spain and not France (see the pictures). We had diner in a nice place. I had some blue crab... the one who loose the shell. We walked around and especially in Bourbon street where we can see 2 things: Music (mostly jazz, but other kind of music are there) and sex business. I was a bit surprised to see this in there ... but what can I say!! The effects from Katrina are absolutely not present so we tried to go by car around and see. Since we didn’t know where to go, we couldn’t find the place to see, not a big deal. We stopped by the lake which was the cause of the damages (The lake Pontchartrain).
With the road we had to do tomorrow, we decided to drive few more hours before finding a hotel. We went 4 hours farer than what we expected for that day, it will help us tomorrow before reaching Miami!!!!
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