Don’t know but mine was easy to remember. It was at the corner of Bourbon and Orleans It was a lovely location but I’m surprised that it promotes “morning overlooking the French Quarter” on the website, cause it made me sort of hate blues rock when the music started up again at 9 am after a long night partying.
I got my first Undergrad degree at LSU in Baton Rouge, just about 45 mins from New Orleans. I visited New Orleans many, many times, since Baton Rouge kinda sucked. I was in BR during the awful hurricane season that brought us Katrina and Rita. That was a lil scurry. I visited NO shortly after Katrina. The city felt like a ghost town, and the areas that had been hit hardest were still partially flooded, and completely decimated. Pretty shocking to see in person, to say the least.
Lived in Nawlins from Dec. 82 throught Dec 86. Bought a house in Westend on Avenue B and worked for Tidewater when they were on Canal St. I googled the house on Avenue B for grins a while back. It’s just a vacant lot post Katrina.
I spent 24 hours there on my 2002 road trip. A short but extremely fun visit. I stayed at Le Richelieu (not in the McCartney suite, unfortunately). When I strolled down to Jackson Square it seemed like Disneyland in real life–ha! Had dinner at Pontalba, walked around with a hand grenade, had chicory and a beignet at the Cafe du Monde–the usual tourist stuff. The aquarium was pretty cool, except for the screaming hordes of schoolkids.
You didn’t do it right. Meh is not usually a descriptor associated with New Orleans. I have heard a few people say they hate it for legitimate reasons of their own but never a simple shrug off. That is just lazy. It is a unique, world-class city and historical site that serves an real-life open air theme park.
In 2008 I drove by myself from New York to New Orleans. That was a mistake - solo road trips suck, and if I’d flown I would have been able to spend more time in that wonderful city!
As I posted, I visited the city back in the nineties. But I came close to almost visiting the city this year. I was driving down to Houston and my original planned route was to drive down 55 to Hammond and then turn west on 12. If I had followed that route I would have driven within thirty miles of New Orleans on a cross-country trip without entering the city. (As it turned out, I actually ended up taking 55 only to Jackson, Mississippi and then getting on 20 to go west.)
According to a cached page from distancebetweencities.com, it’s 517 miles from Mena, Arkansas to New Orleans. I’ve been to the airport somewhere in the boonies near Mena (which is a story in itself), but I don’t think it quite gets me into the 101-500 range.
On a family vacation in 1993, we were traveling most of the US. Coming from Texas, we spent the night in Baton Rouge and then continued traveling east to Mississippi. Looking at the map, the closest we got was where I-12 joins up with I-10 again north of New Orleans which is ~30 miles.
It was a lovely location but I’m surprised that it promotes “morning overlooking the French Quarter” on the website, cause it made me sort of hate blues rock when the music started up again at 9 am after a long night partying.