A Hard Days Night

Day 4
Current Location: Somewhere outside of Austin

Good morning everyone! We are moving right along in our adventures. We left Louisiana yesterday and entered the hot, dry, heavy traffic lands of good ol' Texas. New Orleans was amazing. We did not get into New Orleans until one however because we had to wait around the super Wal-Mart for a couple of hours to get some medicine for my throat; however, we got the medicine and I am on the up and up, praise the lord.

New Orleans is called the city of beads for a good reason because there were literally beads everywhere, on the roof, tangled in the trees, on the electricity wires, it was crazy. We strolled through the narrow streets taking pictures and watching the crazy ass people that live in New Orleans. The second we stepped out of the car we watched an interaction between a hooker and some tourist...fascinating. We booked a room at the Sir Charles Hotel which sounds way fancier than it actually is, believe me, but we got a good rate and after the surprise mandatory fee still only paid about 70 bucks.

We visited a latin style cemeterary and got a free tour from this really creepy gravedigger, and thursday night after eating dinner at this nice little surf shack we decided to walk down bourbon street. We were surprised by the little damage that we saw from Katrina, however, some buildings were still pretty badly damaged, and you could see the high water line. The streets were flooded with tourists, big brass bands, bouncers sweeping people into their bars, and scantilly clad women. We made our way into a bar, drank a couple beers, watched girls give guys mouth to mouth shots, and then decided to call it a night, lack of money and lack of sleep made us return to our room around 11.

In the morning we woke up bright and early and had an amazing crwafish omelette at the Fleur de Lis cafe, and then got beignets (mom's suggestion) which were delicious. We visited a beautiful catholic cathedral, walked along the river, browsed in an art gallery, and then headed out of New Orleans around 10 30.

Driving through the bayou was beautiful, but of course as soon as Katie took the wheel in Texas we hit uber traffic with crazy drivers, not o mention the construction, Katie somehow got us throuh the hell hole that is houston, and I coasted us into Austin yesterday afternoon.

Austin was beautiful. Surrounded by pastures and countryside, loads of music and cool people. We walked around, saw the ginormous, gargantuous capitol building, and had some jaba juice...delicious. This is when problems arose. The GPS took us to a non-existant campground, and that is when we called in Brenda (Katie's Mom) who found us a campground outside of Austin. The campground was closed however, and we spent a very stiff night in the back of my VW rabbit. However, we made oatmeal this morning and are ready for the gruelling drive through Texas. We are hoping to make it to El Paso today, and then to Tucson Arizona tomorrow. Wish us a luck and energy our faithful bloglet followers.

peace