What I Did On My Holidays Part 2 - New Orleans

I flew out of Auckland, and two planes later, landed in New Orleans.

I had a ( wonderful introduction to New Orleans. )

Then I realised with dismay that I'd forgotten to bring with me kauket's directions to the ( bar I was supposed to be meeting her in. )

As it happened, she found me while I was ambling round Decatur Street, and dragged me off to a bar, for a really ( nice evening )

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The following morning was a disappointment in a couple of ways - in particular, everywhere appeared ( tacky in the extreme. )

However. By mid-afternoon, I'd realised this wasn't entirely true, and was feeling a ( lot happier )

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People I met kept saying to me had I done this, had I done that. Had I been out to the Plantations, had I been on a Swamp Tour? The answer to all of them was no. I went to NO with the intention of chilling out for a few days. ( So I did. )

I'm not sure that NO is really representative of America - certainly bits of it didn't seem to fit with my ideas at all. But I did encounter my first Great American Problem there: post boxes. I had my postcards, written and (eventually, after some further ado) stamped. I walked round a whole day, and failed to identify a post box. Eventually, I asked someone. And I'm sorry, America, but they're not post boxes. They're rubbish bins. Sort it out.

Oh, and second G.A.P: all the money looks the same. 'Nuff said.

LJ Adventure

[If this makes no sense to you, go back to the beginning. This fragment follows on from here. Please only post comments here if they are continuations of the Adventure.]

Biting the bullet (bad choice, should have bitten the bunny), you bow to the inevitable fate of every adventurer, ever, and swing your puny club at the giant menace.

It blinks in lapine surprise, and roars again, in case you didn't realise how big and scary it was in the first place. You advance again and the rabbit, unprepared for such foolhardy bravado, turns tail and flees back into its hellish pit.

You can now see clearly that the mystical portal has a slightly green and melty look. The pit looks, well, hellish, and has overtones of sulphur - however, among those fiery glints might just be the gleam of gold...

What do you want to do next?