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Louisiana and Mississippi Day 2: Exploring the City

9 October 2022

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 24 November 2022
  • Louisiana 9

On Sunday, we mostly laid low and explored the immediate area around our hotel.

Our Business Stinks … · New Orleans, Louisiana
A row of ornate cream-colored building facades in New Orleans, with columns bearing red medallion accents, decorative Corinthian capitals, and an intricate wrought-iron and glass awning overhead. A large white urn holds a leafy palm on the brick sidewalk, with signs reading “Couvant” and “Eliza Jane” and two pedestrians in the sunlit distance.
New Orleans, Louisiana
French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

We were in town because was Lisa was attending the WEFTEC conference. The conference was not messing around. They rented out several massive exhibition halls at New Orleans’ largest convention center and had this rather impressive branding installed just outside the convention center.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
A pair of weathered teal-green wooden double doors set within an arched opening in a pale yellow stucco wall, fronted by a red brick sidewalk. A white downspout runs down the wall to the right, where the stucco transitions to a red-painted section.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Trash Can with a Smile · … or is it a grimace? · Woldenberg Park, New Orleans, Louisiana

I later learned (through a rather spectacular navigation/trip planning error) that this bridge is the southernmost crossing of the Mississippi. We recovered from the navigation error, but it would have been oh-so-much better had there been a crossing an hour or two south of there like I had imagined.

A white passenger ferry crosses a wide river under a clear purplish-blue sky, with a large steel truss bridge spanning the water in the background and a low tree-lined shoreline where an American flag flies.
Woldenberg Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
The illuminated stone facade of a historic hotel in New Orleans at dusk, with a lit marquee spelling HOTEL over a dark canopied entrance, three arched bays with hanging lantern lights, and carved lettering reading ‘Grand Lodge of Louisiana’ above. Two men and a woman stand outside on the sidewalk looking at their phones, with flags projecting from the upper floors.
New Orleans, Louisiana

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