Day: April 24, 2018

ACP in NOLA Day #7 “Homeward Bound”

by reissmd, posted in New Orleans, New Orleans (NOLA)

No we didn’t see Simon and Garfunkel last night, but we did see our friends Angie and Don.  We were first introduced to these lovely people on a trip to the Crescent City in 2014.  At that time we just stopped by “for drinks” but instead Angie served us an incredible meal which included my favorite (and the real reason I am willing to put up with the humidity in the South) shrimp and grits.  If you’ve never tried them I recommend you don’t.  They are very unhealthy but totally irresistible.

Angie and Don agreed to have dinner at 9:00 PM to accommodate our still being on west coast time (I told you they are lovely people) and they picked us up at our hotel.  We had asked to go to some place only known to locals so they drove us to Bacchanal (600 Poland Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117).  When we arrived we saw a line out the door.  I asked, “Don’t you have reservations?”  To which Angie replied, “They don’t take reservations”.   This actually turned out just fine.  The line went quickly because many of the people just wanted to get drinks.  The food was good and served Tapas style.  It was nice getting together with friends our last night in town.

DON AND ANGIE
Patrice, Don, Angie and me.

 

I think we are leaving town just in time.  It is starting to get very humid here and I don’t do well with humidity.  It is time to leave New Orleans and time to start planning our next trip.  In May we will have what has become our annual Baseball and BBQ road trip.  Thank you so much to Patrice for allowing me to continue to pursue my hopes to visit every MLB ballpark.  We have visited 14 and have 16 more to go.  In exchange I continue to agree when she wants to order bread pudding for dessert.

I enjoy posting about our trips and LOVE your comments.  I spoke to someone about making money from a blog and they said you need at least 100,000 followers to make any money.  I told him I had 200 to which he replied “You should be able to make some real coinage with 200,000 followers.”  Then I told him, “No, I have 200, not 200,000.”

Goodbye until May.  It’s good to be home.