Today is Hop-on-Hop off Bus day. Since Paul can\"t walk very far, we figured this was the only way we were going to get to see the city. Happily the main office and stop 5 was a reasonable walk from the RV park, so after a quick hot tub to get limbered up (mostly Paul) we made the 10.30 bus. (Its a 1.5 hour tour not counting getting off, so we figured that was about right.)
The tour went thorough the French Quarter, the Garden District, Downtown, the Irish Canal, and the borders of a few other neighborhoods. It was only the second day that the bus tour was up and running which was lucky for us. You could tell, the tree libs kept hitting the bus since it hadn't trimmed them in a year...
The view from the top of the double decker bus was great, you could see down the side streets. I won\"t recount the history here (at least now) but we learned a lot about the city. We went through the site of the 1984 World\"s Fair which was the last time I was in New Orleans. It was the rundown part of town then, now the trendy old warehouse turned into expensive loft condos area now. My family took the train from St Louis to go to the fair. Apparently they are going to try and increase the train service again now...
Then back on the bus to finish our tour. As my son had managed not to pack any nice pants, and we had noticed the outlet mall on the bus tour, we went back to achieve that shopping chore. Amazingly we found some that fit fairly painlessly. And a we got to gaze at the mighty Mississippi, which we had last seen when it was a fairly short crossing by bridge that we almost missed noticing.
Our RV site came with a gazebo so we made good use of it for dinner and then crashed.
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