Louisiana

The best part about driving to New Orleans if you’ve just come from the southwest is that once you cross into Louisiana, you see actual trees for the first time since the mountains of California.  Flagstaff AZ had a few, but I ripped through that place at night and there was so much snow I couldn’t take any pictures.

 

Louisiana from the get go is really low lying and wet.  In the drive to New Orleans, there were a lot of big birds, the southern portion of the state was all accessed by long bridges over swamp.  It also seems like every car at every rest stop is in the process of a hunting trip of some sort.  With a lot of traffic at Baton Rouge and in the city itself leading to the Saints Super Bowl victory celebration, it took me 10 hours to get here.  That’s 40 hours from San Francisco to New Orleans, in 3 days.  I need a drink!