On Mardi Gras Day, off-the-tourist-beaten path, you can find one of the most colorful and spectacular sights this city has to offer…the Mardi Gras Indians! A large part of New Orleans, including Carnival, is steeped in African roots. Fill your calendar this week sampling the African [...]
By New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition, whoever receives the slice with the baby inside provides the king cake for the next “king cake party.” As this week’s title says...It’s still Carnival Time in New Orleans. Yeah! Our toddler is so excited about the season, every morning [...]
New Orleans featured on Travel & Leisure Magazine as one of America's Best Cities: LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-cities/1
Travel makes you vulnerable. Part of what makes travel so rewarding is overcoming that vulnerability. If you want to avoid it altogether, you rent the Presidential Suite at the downtown hotel. That will fairly well insulate you from the town you're in –wherever that may be. [...]
We were recently featured in New Orleans City Business magazine. Click the image to read the full article.
We (my husband Jim and I) were back at the closing table today as home buyers. We bought a flooded, gutted house in South Lakeview – ugliest house on the block, fortunately – that we intend to renovate into a state of beauty it has never [...]