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We had a good time in New Orleans. We have been here for 6 days and it's time to travel on. We spent a day in the French Quarters just walking the streets, looking around and tasted some Beignets which are a French donut type pastry that is smothered in powered sugar. We also took a drive through the Garden District and viewed the plantation style homes and a cemetery. The cemeteries around here are all above ground. The reason is because there is so much water around here that if they dig a grave, it will fill with water before they can get the body in it. This cemetery had graves from the 1700s to present. Some were in pretty bad shape as you can imagine. What I didn't understand though is some had as many as 20 names on them.
We just love sitting in the mornings and early evenings an listening to the many types of birds in the Bayou. I wish I could post sound so all of you could listen to it. It is really something. Every evening after dark, we get a visit from a couple of Raccoons. They have been eating the bird seed I put out so we started putting out peanuts for them. They not only eat the peanuts but all the bird seed so I don't leave the bird seed out at night.
Tomorrow we are moving on. We are just going down the road a bit and stopping in Biloxi Mississippi. Why? I don't know'Just because we can. We have to slow down. I figure if we only travel 2 hours a day we will still be in Orlando Florida a week early. We will have to find some place to play for a while. Since we don't like to travel on the weekends we will most likely find a place to stay over the weekend. I mapped out a route along the gulf coast of Florida then realized that it may still be messed up from the last hurricane so I gave some of the beach state parks a call. They said they are open and mostly rebuilt. Now how about the roads? We will have to see.
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