Willie Mae’s has been around for a long, long time. In recent years, the restaurant has been featured on places like the Travel Channel and the Food Network, which is rather impressive. Once a place becomes hyped to that high a level, though, one wonders if it is true, or if they are simply being…
Month: April 2012
Homecoming
Coming to New Orleans on vacation and staying in the French Quarter and relying only on your feet and the streetcars is one thing. Driving into it and finding a place to park is quite another! Needless to say, when we went down to the FQ that first Friday in town, it was a very…
Recap 3: Arrival
There is a distinct and sudden feeling of Otherness, the second you cross over the border from eastern Texas into Louisiana. Reclaiming the helm at a welcome center just across the line, I immediately cruised us through Shreveport, and knew I was in the right state because the pro-environmental billboard on the side of the…
Follow Your Crazy 