Coming to New Orleans?

[Professor]

[Professor]

Not a bad map, Boris.

I think that my most awe-inspiring moment on a road trip was driving along I-70 to Devner. Imagine you're on some wagon train back in the 1800s. You're riding along this flat, featureless landscape. You start to see a smudge on the horizon. It doesn't get any bigger for hours (or days, if you're on horse). Then, all of a sudden, it starts growing. You notice that some parts are brown, while some are white.

Then you start to make out individual mountains. Once you get to where you can start picking out valleys, you realize that they stretch north and south as far as you can see. If you were in a wagon, you'd be faced with going into this wall of mountains, or spending the next year going around.

Seriously, it's the most imposing, awesome (true sense of the word), humbling thing I've ever seen.

[Spider]

The good news is that via this site you've got tour guides pretty much anywhere in the lower 48 you choose to scope out.

Kane would be walking funny for a week after he got done showing you around the Bay Area.

[The Dharma Bum]

[OGPhilly]

Soft shell crab is just generally awesome.

[The Dharma Bum]

Pretty much.

[Sandman]

Spent a good chunk of my pre-teen and teen years making constant trips across the TX state line to NO. In those days if you could reach the bar, they'd serve you (french attitude), and the Bounce scene was in full swing. Some of the best times in my life happened in 9th ward. Definitely wasn't a place for tourists outside of Bourbon st. I've never been anywhere where murder was viewed so lightly. At least not in the states, lol. Little kids were killers, and I really got the feeling that I could die at any moment for literally no reason whatsoever. But that probably added to the fun. But yeah, amazing food, women, music, culture, history, architecture, etc. No place like it.

I can only speak on "old" NO, though. From what I understand, it's a whole different place now post-katrina, but I haven't been back since. And I can personally attest to the fact that most of the biggest knuckleheads from NO are still living in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, lol. They never went back. So I can imagine it being a whole different vibe there now.