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Day 8: Boisser City, LA to New Orleans, LA (via I-49 and I-10)Miles today: 347 Total Miles: 2836 |
| I get up this morning, and official decide I'm not going to stop in Tallahassee. I'll just drive straight through from New Orleans. It will be a long day, but it will get me to Melbourne a day faster. The drive across Louisiana is unremarkable. It looks like the rest of the SE. |
The city with my name |
A shot of I-49 |
Atchafalaya Swamp |
Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge |
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New Orleans! Get lost, again, finding my hotel, but this time I blame the directions, not human error. At least I know the main streets. But driving in New Orleans is like driving in San Fransisco, only worse. Another city of no left turns and one way streets, only in New Orleans the streets are the width of a pencil, and the building tower above and make it feel really closed in. I end up calling the hotel to get directions, and it turns out I'm not to far off.
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My hotel in the Garden District |
The green room |
The view from the room into the central plaza |
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Streetcar stop near hotel |
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Views down streets in the French Quarter |
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More local color |
Great street band |
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All Photographs © 2009 Arlena L. Moses |