NOLA: Day 1
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Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers
I’m pretty sure if there was such a thing as “sinning” in New Orleans, skipping out on live music would be one of them. Day 1/night 2 consisted of just that – live music – by Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers at Blue Nile. The show was super fun and lively with the most interesting…
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Roaming the French Quarter
The only way to heal from a case of the overeating in New Orleans is to aimlessly meander around the French Quarter. We revisited Frenchman St. now in broad daylight, walked along the Mississippi River, and took a curious turn on kooky Bourbon St. The architecture is as vivid and diverse as it’s original inhabitants, naturally,…
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NOLA: The First Brunch [SPOILER: It’s filling…]
It was a cloudy, then sunny, then drizzly, then back to a sunny, hot, humid day in New Orleans. The forecast for the remainder of the trip was reported to be consistently inconsistent, which is how every vacation should play out I suppose. Unplanned planning? Planning the unplanned? The city was quiet this Friday early afternoon and we…
Katherine Rodriguez 