New Orleans {Day Three} The French Quarter

Tweet In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville founded what has became known as the Vieux Carré or French Quarter. Back then, this registered national historic landmark was nothing more than a sticky swamp filled with ‘gators, mosquitoes and malaria, but at three feet above sea level, it was – and remains – the [...]

New Orleans {Day Two} BOBNOLA

Tweet So what do movie star Bette Davis, 20 million pounds of sugar and a solid silver carving of President Abraham Lincoln have in common? They’re all connected to Houmas House Plantation – one of the best preserved ante-bellum mansion and grounds that litter the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana – and the [...]

New Orleans {Day One}

Tweet . There’s a tenement building in the French Quarter that’s haunted….ok, according to our Ghost tour guide, there are a lot of haunted buildings in the French Quarter. But I’ll get to that later. Chris and I had all day to wonder around the Quarter, before we planned to meet up with Trisha, Leah, [...]