Day 1, New Orleans, LA

We arrived in New Orleans on schedule and have been busily devouring the city sights since.  Our hotel is the Villa Convento on the edge of the French Quarter, a very cute and old building across the street from Le Croissant d'Or, a wonderful pastry shop.  We have been on walking tours (cemetery, historic garden district, river front); eaten gumbo, etouffee, and jambalaya; been on boats and streetcars; relived World War II; seen jazz performed on street corners and in clubs; and had flaming Banana's Foster prepared table-side at the restaurant where it was invented. What a wild time.

Today I will meet the woman of the tour and tomorrow we will take off for points north. Maybe then I can get some sleep.