Breakfast in Florida, lunch in Alabama and dinner in Louisiana (via Mississippi) - covered almost 800 miles in the last two days from Daytona, up through the "pan handle" of Florida and across to New Orleans ("Nola") where we are now.
Clare enjoyed it so much she has now enlisted in the US navy!
We are staying in a little inn on Elysian Fields (thanks Matt and Jo, Seb and Sara, and SJ and Tyson) and the owners were kind enough to give us a bottle of champagne on arrival, which we enjoyed sitting in their porch. We just needed a rocking chair each to nail the quintessential American experience!
We then spent our first evening on Frenchman Street, listening to fantastic little jazz bands (almost every bar and restaurant has live music) and eating oysters.
I was going to describe the drinks Kate, Leanne, and Seb and Sara kindly bought us; but given the hangovers we woke up with this morning we have no idea what they were, apart from the (very strong) Sazeracs...we believe one was called a swamp water, but our memory is a bit cloudy!
