{"id":1867,"date":"2015-09-20T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2015-11-30T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:38:27","slug":"day-85-new-orleans-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Day 85: New Orleans, Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had rarely been so happy to enter a new state. Despite the day before being just awful, we were hopeful about Louisiana. We spoke to the woman at the welcome center alone more than anyone in the previous state. She clearly loved her state and had lots of advice.<\/p>\n

We headed straight into\u00a0New Orleans<\/a>. It was a lovely city, full of people, both residents and tourists. The houses weren’t huge, but they were mostly well kept and had reasonable outside space further from the center. The ones in the city proper were very colorful.<\/p>\n

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Downtown – Back in the Land of Palm Trees<\/p><\/div>\n

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French Quarter<\/p><\/div>\n

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Joan of Arc<\/p><\/div>\n

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We had an up close look at the Mississippi at its southern end, as it runs through the city:<\/p>\n

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This was actually interesting to me as I’d lived near the northern end my whole life in the Upper Midwest, but never seen the end of it. This wasn’t the very end, but we learned at the welcome center the proper end can only be seen from the air or by boat.<\/p>\n

We checked out the famous French Quarter:<\/p>\n