Day 13 & 14 - From Texas City to N`awlins and Bourbon Street

We went on the road again on day 13 from Texas City towards New Orleans (pronounced by many local people as N`awlins).

Not much to see along the way on this stretch even though we tried to keep on the smaller roads.

The climate is changing.

From dry,hot(!), flat desert to a damper ,and still hot, climate. The highway into New Orleans was a cool place to drive. It goes thru a "rainforest". Tall trees on all sides hanging over the road and water passing under the road which is built on pillars down in the swamp.

Last night we went out to check out the French Quarter and Bourbon street.

Bourbon street is one crazy place. You got everything from strip clubs, to family restaurants, jazz & blues clubs, hot dog stands, t-shirts, beer (a lot of beer) +++. For norwegian readers this can be compared to what we call "syden". Only concentrated down to one street.

The rest of the French quarter is different and filled with many nice restaurants, coffe places, hotels, antique shopes and cool looking apartment buildings which easily could have been in Cuba.

After dinner we spent the night in various clubs and bars were we listened to jazz and drank beer.

When people liked what they heard in the jazz clubs it was expressed by spontaneous clapping and "Yeah!"´s. Being a norwegian and then ,by culture, a more reserved kinda guy it was a cool experience to be in those clubs. A lot of characters.

Today we have just been checking out more downtown, eating and relaxing and tomorrow we will be heading east.

In miles i´ll say we are approx halfway and we have 18 days before out flight leaves New York and approx 16 days before we should be there.

Nice to know that there are a few regular readers that checks up on us!

Will be writing more tomorrow.