Sunday, December 13, 2009

Day 6: Beer and Bourbon on the Bayou

I'll make this short and sweet, because I have to get back on the road...New Orleans was a blast! Walked around a bit during the day to get the lay of the land. Breakfast at Mother's where they serve coffee with milk already mixed in, a cajun take on Cafe con Leche I suppose. Went to Harrah's Casino in the afternoon where I turned 20 bucks into 80, then promptly lost everything except the initial 20. Amazing jumbalaya, gumbo, and local beer at Coop's Place on Decatur, where I met two guys on their way to the strip club and Jill and Ryan from Baltimore. They do a good deal of traveling, so we swapped stories and I think I might have convinced Ryan to go to Burning Man, to Jill's dismay. Then I parked myself at the Maison de Musique on Frenchman and listened to the muffled moan of the trumpet as it sang it's songs of joy and sorrow, the tuba plodding steadily behind. I rounded out the night by meeting a traveling painter named Conan who painted a picture of me as a skeleton riding my Triumph across the States (see picture). My favorite part is the arrow from my name to the skeleton...Yes, those are my bones!

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