Let me preface this by stating that this trip has officially became long. We awoke today and headed out after a quick breakfast towards Jackson MS.
We stopped briefly to tour the historic city, and it really is pretty cool. It was very quiet but it is a very cool city. It seems very very nice.
After that we got on the road. We stopped at a little sandwich shop off the highway for lunch and started the long mostly painful trek to Louisiana. Wow. That was a long sad journey through Arkansas, there is NOTHING there. It was amazing. The radio was the best part. There was this ad that w
as like a public service ad to "keep arkansas beautiful" and it was this role-play about how a big littering problem in Arkansas is litter blowing out the bed of pickup trucks. Wow.
Finally we made it to Louisiana. It is a cool state. Just a lot of interesting wetlands as you get near New Orleans. Well, we made it down and visited the french quarter and bourbon street for a while. It is a truly amazing place. Its just so weird, and old, yet really really huge. Feels very European. Sadly there is a touch of "touristyness" a bit but you can still find pockets of authentic-ness away from bourbon st.
We stopped to grab a bowl of gumbo at a nice little restaurant. It was not what I expected it to be, but it as still pretty good. I mean... its gumbo in New Orleans, can you really go wrong?
So after a quick jaunt we headed out and finally settled in a hotel in the middle of the state. Fun.
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