So, we’re leaving next Thursday, the 19th, to go on a two week trip. We’ll be driving to Orlando, with several stops along the way, including Corinth, Shiloh, Chattanooga, and some others. After Orlando, we’ll then head to New Orleans, with stops in St. Augustine, Mobile, Vicksburg, and Natchez. We’ll spend four days in New Orleans and then head home.
I told my wife and son that I’m going to buy a copy of the song “Chattanooga Choo Choo” so we can listen to it as we’re heading into that town. They both promptly started up a coalition to keep me away from the stereo. I
I’m really looking forward to this trip. Many of the towns we’re stopping in are places I’ve not been to yet. New Orleans, as it’s my original hometown, will be the highlight of the trip. I’m looking forward to showing my son around the area, all the places I used to go and the things I did growing up, like fishing out on Lake Pontchartrain, going boating out in the bayous and swamps, and of course eating lots of delicious food. First thing I’m gonna get when we arrive in town is a footlong fried oyster po-boy, dressed. That’ll be followed by a bowl of gumbo and a mess of boiled crawfish. Then we’ll hit the Cafe Du Monde for a bunch of beignets. Be Heaven, it will.
Okay. That’s it for tonight. I’m tired and my posterior is really sore, so I’m going to bed.
Pleasant dreams and good night to all!
Sure hope your po-sterior treats you well. I’m green with envy with respect to your culinary schedule… Gulf seafood and PacN’West seafood are things I’d dearly love to have in Michigan (sigh).
We are driving to NO in March to celebrate my mom’s 70th. We haven’t been therefor almost 15 years. Looking forward to the food…. where’s the best place to get a po’ boy?
Don’t know if the place is still there, as I moved away back in ’86, but I used to love this place called Guillermo’s, out in Metairie. Great damn fried oyster po’boy, and a good meatball po’boy too.