This is the eleventh installment of the series of post on a road trip during the spring of 2014. I woke up with a cold sweat last night. I realize if I don't grab my blogging by the hone (think unicorn) my series of the recent road trip will never finish.
This would be my last couple of days in New Orleans. The weather was getting hotter and humid for someone so acclimatized to the cool Pacific Northwest. I went to a few more parades before the fat Tuesday in which the Mardi Gras officially starts. I had planned to leave NOLA before the fat Tuesday.
nice mansion in the Garden District
this unlucky motorist got a ticket - people in Hong Kong calls it being treated with a beef jerky 牛肉幹
i begun accumulate my parade trophy
great country terrine and italian salome
this has to be one of the biggest building lifting job - to fix the aftermath of Katrina
this street is still under construction from damage from Katrina and you can see how soggy the soil is
ready for the parade
this beef jerky is so good - not a hint of sugar; just great rich beefiness
i was happy to find Rouses when I exhausted the wine that I brought along from home
king cakes
they have a pretty good seafood section
i bought some shelled gulf shrimps and a bag of oysters in shell
i arrived early ahead of the parade in the Garden District and scored a good parking spot at the head water of the parade route
they were using Rouses parking lot as staging point for the bands
i didn't know the oysters in shell i bought had been subject to high pressure treatment to make them easy to open; alas the process killed the oyster and the flavors are lost; people ought to stop coming up with fancy novel ideas to process food because if they are any good it had been done long ago
a local told me this is a decent bar with live music
the parade uses a lot of this affordable Hollander tractors which I recognize I saw them made in a factory in Bangkok
the Garden District has a lot of grand old houses and this is a smaller one
hosing down the street after the parade
an all shrimp meal
another all shrimp meal
another parade in the French Quarter
back to Spotted Cat
no standing on benches but is perfectly ok to dance on the fire hydrant - LOL
is that Frida Kahlo?
love this band
the next morning I left New Orleans to see the national preserve East of it
a great breakfast i made
ran into one of the heaviest monsoon-like downpour - raining horses and donkeys
passing through New Mexico
the stark contrast between driver employed by UPS in the amenities (no sleeping quarter)
and the driver of private rig
US Border Patrol check station
somewhere in Texas
a lazy dinner of steak
i took this picture because of the irony - there is this long stretch of no cellular coverage and here goes the AT&T service vehicle
yes, next to the road is this cellular antenna tower but no stinking service
it never fail to amaze me the America made nicer RVs circa 50 years ago; this nice GMC
wondering what the distant hill is
what the hill looks like up close
these folks just camp out in the rest area under the big Texas sky - it is a nice rest stop
this is probably one of the hand full of vehicles I passed during my trip
this bourbon is impossibly sweet - never again
heading to higher elevation the altimeter is handy to keep track of the altitude and inform me the grade Brunnhilde is climbing
passing through the Texas Canyon again - it is a nice rest area to spend the night
i stopped by the Titan Rocket Museum in Arizona
locks are to keep honest folks honest
everything in the facility is on suspension (note the springs the light fixtures are mounted onto)
the command center deep inside the silo
These giant springs support the command center control room
old school analogue plumbing and gauges
early cold war era technology
i couldn't get enough of these old world engineering
i'd always love these volatile vapor proved light fixture; i have use it in my houses over the years; the nice ones are getting very difficult to find - this one is missing the diffusive glass cover
these can't sound worst than
Beat
emergency wash basin
i almost bought this geiger counter
amigo was cool to post for my camera so I can lie that I dined in a full service restaurant
next visit the quaint old Tucson neighborhood
it is surprisingly small cluster in downtown
must of which had long been gentrified
beautifully (and expensive) cast covers for storm drain
this local news mobile news uplink is covering a murder trail in which video recording is allow in the court room - ok, i was nosy to ask the camera man when he came back to the decked out Sprinter
the graceful modern architecture of the city hall
oregonians do get around
taking stock of my last two bottles of NOLA good beer
this lobster kept me company
tombstone
wondering what was it like riding up to a town called tombstone during the wild west days
this is the most interesting camper on the whole trip
here is their website -
Pepamobil a couple from Switzerland
this is the kind of harden camper you want to go to countries where your vehicle values multiples of the lifetime income of the local folks
not a bad shot taking with a backhand out of the window with a phone while driving
a lucky shot capturing the flying hawk
this special license plate is for military deployed overseas
the only metric road signs you will find in the US along this highway - may be not
next destination is Flagstaff
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