Red Stick

We stopped at Baton Rouge to play at the Casino Rouge, have lunch, and get a look at the Mississippi. No luck with gambling, but the lunch was nice I liked Red Stick better than The Big Easy, actually.

We are now in the middle of Mississippi - at a college town called Hattiesburg (or someting close to that) Still on CST so we always miss whatever we usually would watch at 8PM because here it comes on at seven and we are at dinner. Tonight dinner was at Paninos - it was very good. They make a special "three milk" dessert which is essentially white cake soaked in sweet milk and topped with whipped cream. Very good.

We're at a Fairfield because other places were booked. The good part is there's an indoor pool which we are about to go soak in, WIFI access, and a continental breakfast. It's a bit pricey, but a very nice property.

I have yet to plan tomorrow's route and try to figure where to do a laundry. We hear it's supposed to be icy on Monday in NJ so we may drag our heels a bit.

The Big Easy

Dunno when I've ever been so tired. We got up at six this morning to have breakfast and get a bus for a city tour at eight. We saw a lot of New Orleans from the comfort of the bus, and were let out at a cemetary and a mansion whose name escapes me just now. Downtown, we gulped down a forty dollar Cajun lunch and just made the shuttle (feed me red rice and beans and then put me on a bouncy shuttle - yeh). We got back to the hotel around two and went off again at five on a shuttle to The French Quarter.

We walked around Bourbon street then got some lobster at Sammy's for dinner. We had resies on the 9:30 shuttle but were pooped so tried for the 7:30 but it was fully booked so we tried to share a cab back with some Liverpudlians but there were too many of us and so we took our own. It was, all in all, our most expensive, and exhausting, day yet.

Sky

We arrived in New Orleans this afternoon. Sunny and 74 degrees.

Tomorrow we have a tour booked. Weather high supposed to be 63.

Should be fun with transiting Mars opposed my Saturn and transiting Mercury opposed my Sun.

Beach Smeach

Yesterday (beach day proposed) we awoke to a dense fog. It never burned off. We went for a bit of a drive and soaked ourselves in the pool a while (freezing upon exit) but we spent much of the day hoping for the sun to appear.

We ought to have left for The Big Easy as we had first planned - but the weatherman had promised a sunny day.

Who trains these weather people anyway?

We leave in an hour for New Orleans. I'm not sure what we expect to do there.

Luckily I've been reading Coelho's The Pilgrimage and using the work as a sort of grimoire. I have bought a scallop shell to wear. Perhaps it will serve to remind me that Ithaca is not the goal. The journey is the goal.

Panama City

We really made time today on our way to The Big Easy. We are at the Legacy in Panama city. Website here. Have a look at it because it's really quite nice.

We're going to stay two nights so we can have a beach day tomorrow. The Gulf is cold and rough but the pool is nice and we have a two room suite with a full kitchen and living room (two tv's) 10th floor Gulf view for only 69 USD per night.

Of course nothing is as good as staying with Rainy where our room is ready already again! However, I have a job to get back for and so we can't stay forever. *sigh*

Silver Springs

Yesterday, we three (four if you count Sassy) went on a field trip to Silver Springs where we took a ride on a glass bottom boat and saw a fountain show.

Ice cream was involved as well.





Today we plan on visiting Rainy's folks.

We leave for the panhandle tomorrow.