“You learn something new every day” so the saying goes, or as Grandpa Simpson said “Homer, you’re dumb as a mule and twice as ugly! If a strange man offers you a ride, I say, take it!”

My blog posting to stubbornlikeamule.net has increased from nothing in nearly 2 years to almost daily as I’ve been telling tails of our travels and I’ve been enjoying it, and I’ve also worked out how to transfer the

Day 4, the girls headed out early because they wanted to go to the Mardi Gras museum. Pat and I headed out a bit later as I was still recovering from the 4am wake up. We headed into the French Quarter looked at a couple of galleries and grabbed a coffee.

Since we are celebrating our Thanks Giving on Saturday, we had thought that we’d find a homeless shelter to do some volunteering here in

I’m writing this at 4am on Day 4 in New Orleans as I struggle with a patch of insomnia. It’s taken me a few days to get a handle on this city, and I admit on Day 1 and 2 I was not really enjoying it that much.

From the neighbourhood that we are staying in I got the feeling that we were having a holiday in Davoren Park or Kilburn.

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A bit of a non-event today as we recovered from the overnight flights.

Departed SFO at 12.35am (Saturday morning) via Houston arriving at 5.30am (not much sleep there a 3 hour flight due to the time change). Then 2 hours in the airport before a quick up and down to NOLA. Then into a cab driven by a non-local, local who didn’t know where our accommodation was, so got us to the general vicinity