Louisiana Travel Blogs - Page 7

Three years ago, I attended a medical conference in New Orleans. Seven days, many beignets later, I ended up with roughly 100 pictures of the Riverwalk, Lee Circle, Bayou Region, French Quarter, Jackson Square and Bourbon Street. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, my thoughts are with all of the wonderful people that "adopted," me and taught me about their historical and fascinating city.

My first solo trip ever. Before that, I would always travel with my family, to various places. But there are so many places I wanted to see, but the rest of my family didn’t really have that desire.I decided to go to New Orleans. Why? I don’t really remember, but I guess because it was differen…

September 2008, unfortunately the trip was cut short as I had to return to Germany to be with my mum who was not well at the time.

I had Thursday to wander around New Orleans while my friends worked.  My friend lived in the Garden District in a really cute area of town.  So that is where I started.  I was given a map and pointed in the direction of Bourbon street and told to enjoy the sites!  These are pict…

Photos from my trip to New Orleans with friends. If I ever get the energy, I will write about some of my experiences. LOL... :-0

I visited New Orleans this summer. Hot, humid; good food, music and art.

Anne Rice fans would enjoy the Garden District, where she would get her inspiration and the setting of her books. Whether a fan or not, it is still worth visiting, and just looking around. With the elegant mansions and plantations, it gives what the antebellum South was like. If you have to make on…

32 states in the US and 8 in Canada. Travelled Canada and the USA from coast to coast within five months. Travelled mostly by train, sometimes by coach. In total 33.000 km (20.000 miles). Started and ended in Toronto. Some other highlights: Montreal, Quebec, New York, Philadelpia, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, El Paso, LA, San Fran, Yosemite, Death Valley, Vegas, Vancouver, Jasper. Experienced temperatures varying from minus 25 degrees Celsius to +30 degrees Celsius. Only shot 6000 pictures.

Jazz Fest was a great time.  I had been to Mardi Gras before, but not this festival.  The weather was great, which is very important when you're sitting outside from 11am - 7pm drinking beer all day.  Some highlights of the weekend were Van Morrison and Ludacris.  Shell Fest is …

Since I didn't own a boat, we decided a swamp tour was a good way to see a swamp.  We opted for Honey Island Swamp because of "word of mouth" and it didn't disappoint.  The tour was $23 pp and lasted a little over an hour and a half.  We passed through swamps, bayous, rivers, and the…

As part of my goal to see all 50 states, I decided to head south for Spring Break so I could check off Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. Most of my stops were geology related :)

It was fun... I really enjoyed it... I only went to Bourbon ST. though... LOL- so, yeah.... : )

It snowed in NOLA. Class had just began when it was announced on the intercom, "IT"S SNOWING!" We all ran outside and played for a few minutes. Then school was dismissed at 11:15 so that all could go home and enjoy the rarity. :) I've uploaded some photos from the day which my friend took and a few…

I returned to the Elks lodge in Slidell where I have had a couple of good visits in the past. The highlight of this visit was Super Bowl Sunday. We had a crawfish boil before the game and then watch my Patriots win the game in the last four seconds. I was not very popular with the crowd…

Our vacation this year was to Destin, Flordia.