The Big Easy
We started the day in Florida, drove westward into Alabama, then very quickly into Mississippi, and finally into Louisiana. States go by quickly along the gulf coast!
Arriving in New Orleans, we headed to our RV Park, where we met the camp host/owner, "Mr. Billy." He assisted in getting us into the back-in site and then pulled out a map of New Orleans and spent at least the next half hour or more going over all of the places we should go, how to get there, how to avoid street scams, etc.! It was a lot of information and I'm not sure we will remember it all! "Remember where your shoes are at: on your feet." (This is the answer to the scammer statement "Betcha ten dolla I kin tell ya where you got yer shoes at."
Very quickly, we noticed that the wifi doesn't seem to work correctly here. It comes and goes, there one minute and totally disappeared the next. I mentioned it to the host and he even invited me into his house to look at the equipment. It all seems fine and he rebooted it all, but it still doesn't work, so we're back to cellular data connectivity. While we seem to have a good T-Mobile signal, the actual bandwidth seems rather low. We may be able to update some text on this wiki, but uploading pictures is very slow.
We also noticed that there are some very loud bikers on the road just outside of the park and just behind the park is a train yard. So, we decided to sleep with the AC turned on, which provides a lot of white noise. It was actually sufficient for a good night's sleep!
The next morning, when we turned off the AC, we heard the same type of frog which we heard in Charleston! It sounds like a small dog barking. As a matter of fact, we've been hearing this type of frog ever since we left SC! This time, however, standing directly under the AC unit made it clear the sound was coming from directly overhead! I guess we have a hitchhiker from Charleston in our AC! (N.B. he left sometime during our stay in NOLA).
Since it's raining most of the day today, we'll be running some errands to various stores and driving around town. (The Kitty Boy needs his crunchies! Kelly needs more insulin, if we're going to continue this adventure, otherwise we may be forced to go home!)
We successfully circumnavigated Lake Pontchartrain, got more kitty kibble, spent almost 2 hours getting more insulin (thank you Devin the Pharmacist at CVS in E. NO), got various groceries, and decided we really don't like big cities.