What do you do in New Orleans...where the streets all have names but the only one that matters is "Bourbon", It's an entertainment cultural mecca mixed with food, music and interesting people. Here's a little of what I rediscovered.
1. Nothing is baked. It's fried with a cream base and sauce picante. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's about having a meat sauce and many cases that meat is venison or alligator! Don't come to the Big Easy on a diet. You will be miserable. I asked for a skewer of grilled shrimp and a side of broccoli and got the farm (doused in butter)
2. New Orleans is full of fun people. They are magical! And some of them don't need alcohol to cast their special powers. Yesterday a man (or maybe she was a woman) was casting some voodoo magic on passerby tourists. I can only hope this means better luck?! The drunks, well, they really like their bottle. Only in New Orleans anywhere you walk on any street, at any hour, you may find some rainbow spread. It's a common occurrence for party-goers to share that love with the sidewalk, nearby tree, or sometimes right next to you!
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New Orleans is a city where you can lose track of time people watching or consuming any number of gastric delights. Whether it's a Saints game, a parade or just some street walking with the voodoo drunks, it's truly the city that never sleeps. Only in New Orleans .... where it can smell good, bad, and rancid. Only in New Orleans ... where the bar jams until past the wee hours of the morning.
Say you want about this place, it's home. And it's been great to be here again.
