New Orleans

We toured down with Hortense the Honda from Lafayette where we parked Mother, the Monaco. The RV park manager told us that Lafayette and Baton Rouge doubled in size overnight with the damage from Hurricane Katrina.

We visited the French Quarter enjoying the tourist activities: our own self guided walking tour, then beignets and café au lait at Café Du Monde where these wonderful buskers played and sang a rendition of “What a Wonderful World” that brought tears to the eyes of the tourists around us. Very moving, especially when we continued to look around New Orleans where the ghostly apparition of empty streets, houses, schools and businesses surrounded us. The street lights didn’t work but it didn’t matter, we were the only people on these streets. Amazing.