UPDATE: September 1. I have added a full length narrated HD video on my Vimeo channel using the footage I shot on this adventure but was unable to edit or upload it to this blog while I was on the road. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/138050538 So the Swamp Tour guy dropped me off right at the front doors of the World War II Museum and the first thing I noticed was the registration Hall was empty. When I drove by yesterday on the (economically priced!) ...

UPDATE: August 31. I have added a full length narrated HD video on my Vimeo channel using the footage I shot on this adventure but was unable to edit or upload it to this blog while I was on the road. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/loudworld/nola2015 I forgot to mention that when I was being sold the 3 day HoHo pass I saw a pamphlet for a swamp tour on an airboat. This something I have wanted to do for a long time so I grabbed one. Just prior to my na...

Woke up around 0800, cus I went to bed early! Worked on the blog a bit, watched TV, had room service breakfast. It was nice not to have to get on the bike and drive 400 miles. This hotel has a very sensible noon checkout so there was no rush. Around 1100 I started to change hotels, it was a 3 block move. I briefly toyed with the idea of walking all my ***** over, or sending it in a cab but then, what the heck, only takes 5 minutes to pack the bike, although I di...

OK, up by 1030, want to exit the pink & yellow motel post haste, and gone by 1055. Out of the corner of my eye I see the Daq Shaq is backed up, family values in full force there this morning! I had left myself about 150 kms as the crow flies, but my planned route also saw me cross the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway so I guess you could say I took the long way, which ended up being about 300 kms. That theme would be a re-occurrence in coming days. Here is my LP ...

Bright sunshiney morning greeted me at 0900 when the phone rang to see if I was staying over another night. Fer chrissakes! Check out is 1100. Call me at 1059 to ask this question. I grit my teeth, politely say no and ask them not to call me again, and tell the maids not to knock on my door. I want peace and quiet with my green and yellow room with the rusty fridge! To add to the color palette I would like to point out that the exterior of the m'otel was pink...