Who Dat??? Long Way To Skate!!!

So a week in New Orleans is not enough. You could live a lifetime in that city and still not be satisfied. Everything from street performers to roaming artists and people who live only to breath New Orleans. Immediatly upon reaching Canal st. We saw streetcars and marquees advertising the seductive lifestyle of the city, drawing us in like the smell of a fresh baked pie in an old cartoon. More hotels than you could shake a stick at (all of them booked up due to jazzfest) and sounds of city life intertwined with jazz bands and street vendors. We trekked a few streets down to a small local skate shop for a new set of hardware for josh's board and in the process met a new freind, Joshua, who ended up getting permission for us to stay with him, at a very cool house with David and Roselynn, a very cool old musical couple who've been married 50 years!!! For the next week Joshua showed us not only the obvious tourist sites, but also the cool unknown spots in the city. On our second day in town, our freind Stuart aka Stuartini the Magnificent arranged for two tickets to the last day of Jazzfest for us, which was incredibly cool! We got to see everything from blues and jazz to Indian dancing to creole music and and even stuff like Juvenile (a rapper) and the great BB King himself! Over the next few days we rode our boards and sometimes bicycles around different areas of town and tried to find out what Nawlins tasted like. We had muffalattas (great oily sandwiches) and po' boys and all sortsa different Cajun delicacies. We got to see many different art displays like a mural done on a building in the bywater area by some new yorkers and some "junk shops" containing various antiquities mixed in with local artists work. We walked down to the industrial canal and hung out by the levy there to play with joshuas dog Betty and we got to go walk under a pier and took some fantastic pictures. Of course we went through Bourbon street as anybody would, but it wasn't like a central point or anything. We tried various Recipes of bread pudding all over town as well as other dessert foods and so forth. A few days in Joshua introduced us to a fella named Railroad Bill, an older guy with a mind that rivals the best in the world. Railroad Bill and I had a few discussions on history of different subjects and I've gotta say I feel smarter having done so. Sadly our time in Nawlins had to end at some time, and on the Saturday after we showed up we took off up the road again, this time camping next to an oil refinery (bah!) and making our way towards Baton Rouge. But that's another story. I'll post up soon (not another week I promise). Y'all take care