Road Trip

OK. Thinking that next summer we will be a family of four and incapable of such a trip, Alex and I decided that there were some places out west that needed visiting. And thus begins The Road Trip. Phil graciously agreed to use a weeks worth of much coveted vacation time (still ever hopeful that somehow, someway we’ll be traveling to China before the end of this calendar year) to escort us as far as Las Vegas at which point we’ll slowly begin heading back Eastward.

We started in New Orleans, Louisiana, via Atlanta, Georgia. This was my first real visit to New Orleans and I just couldn’t get over the number of homes devastated and still abandoned from Katrina. When you consider that each empty home represents a family affected by the storm; a family displaced and lives turned upside down. Just heartbreaking.

We stayed in the French Quarter, just one block from both Canal Street and Bourbon Street. While we did stroll down Bourbon on our first afternoon, we stayed clear of it from then on out. One of the few time I wish Alex wasn’t such the reader!! We had beignets and café au lait at the Café du Monde and saw where 80% of the Mardi Gras floats are built and housed. We also visited Oak Alley, a plantation home along the Mississippi between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Then it was on to San Antonio, Texas. We learned all about the history of the Republic of Texas while visiting the Alamo and learned about the history of the city while on a riverboat tour.

We’re headed to Tucson right now. But we have to get out of Texas first! This is a huge state, especially when you cruise it’s width on Interstate 10. But thankfully they have wireless internet access at the rest areas so we can get a blog post out!!