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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Pictures from Texas and Arkansas

These are some random shots from the road. I like the one where Greg took us to a dead end. I think it is #4.

Texarkana: the Shamrock Motel

This is a sign at the motel we stayed at, letter for letter:
"WARNING
Only registration pertion stayin room if we see anyother pertion we take out off property rady to go jail . MNAGEMENT"
There are not any typos in my rendition. Seriously.

New Orleans to Texarkana

We woke up at about 3 after our big night out. It took us a while to get going since we were all pretty hungover. Seve showered and we all left to go to lunch. We went to a place called Franky and Johnny's where we had a very hot and cool [...]

Pictures from Louisiana

These are from Louisiana including the restaurant

Pictures from Louisiana

These are from Louisiana including the restaurant called prejeans

Night on the town in New Orleans

So we went out last night. Beau had work but he took us out to frenchmen street and pointed is toward some fun bars. Oh before that we ate a mini dinner with his parents, who were both very nice and hospitable. So then went to a bar called abd I think [...]

Pictures: day in New Orleans

Those are all from my phone in the 9th ward.

Arrived in New Orleans

We just pulled in to New Orleans, arriving at the casa of Beau Babst, a friend from school. His house is downtown and amazingly enormous. He greeted us with warmth despite the late hour and his having work the next day.
There are 2 beds forth three of us so we played credit card [...]

Canton, MS

We stopped for dinner in canton MS, hoping to find some authentic Mississippi cuisine. We did not, since it was 8:30, a late hour there. We found a place called McAlister's which was satisfactory.
While we were there, we developed a group crush on our server, named Mikenaria. We asked her to join [...]

Lunch in Memphis

We just pulled into Memphis, stopping at some random pizza place called exlines. They were incredibly nice and wound up not charging us for our dessert. Real southern hospitality in action.
We pulled away and headed to graceland, home of Elvis. It was kind of what you would expect. Some regular looking people, [...]