Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

My sincerest apologies for the lack of blogs.  I have been consistently on the go for a couple of weeks, and thus, have forgotten to try and make time for my blog.  The important thing is, I'm here now, and I have plenty to talk about.

For this blog, I'll finally talk about my trip to New Orleans.  As I mentioned in my previous post, I took a pretty ridiculous amount of photos.  I'd take a photo and post it immediately to Facebook almost like a photo journal.  Had I had the option to make the journal on here somehow, I would have.  But, at this point, it would take me days to compile all of the photos, transfer them to photobucket and then repost about everything I was doing, so I'll stick with some highlights.

First of all, we ate food like we were never going to eat again.  We spared no expense and spared no amount of calories.  It is easy to do this in NOLA:

Soul food at Mother's:


The highlight of the trip for me, crab legs:


Tyler wanted a bib too, even though he was only eating shrimp:


Beignets and coffee at Cafe du Monde.  I should mention I NEVER drink coffee, but I drank it twice in New Orleans because it was just that good:


Crawfish at the Bayou Boogaloo (a local music festival):


Excellent brunch:


I have tons more food pictures, but you get the idea.  We ate well.  It's pretty rare that I get to eat seafood for every meal, so getting it eat it 95% of the time for our entire trip was quite the treat.

We saw and heard some really great musicians:

Street musicians:




Cedric Burnside:


Had plenty of drinks:




Did some tourist shopping:

Sweet feather hairpieces:


Mardi Gras wear:


Avoiding the plague:


We got some tattoos:




Hung out in a firehouse:


Did some sightseeing:




We also went on a swamp tour:






So, as you can see, we had a pretty eventful and wonderful time:


I would highly recommend a visit to anyone who is considering it.  I can;t wait to go back and do some of the things we didn't have time for.