June 8, 2001, Newsletter Issue #31: Destination 101: My Adopted Hometown of New Orleans

Tip of the Week

New Orleans is diverse. Single traveler, couples (of any conceivable make up), conventioneers or families, New Orleans has more to do and see than you can imagine. A few suggestions:

The Audubon Zoo and the Aquarium of the Americas

City Park, with its amusement area and the New Orleans Museum of Art - (small, but permanent Faberge display)

Jazzland amusement park 15 minutes from downtown - Summer, daily

The D-Day Museum, the Confederate Museum, and the award-winning Children`s Museum

The French Quarter, of course - sleazy and exciting. Best food in the world, music of every stripe (not just jazz), watch the world walk by. Street performers, palm- and tarot-readers, carriages pulled by mules, artists...

Antiques - Royal Street in the Quarter and Magazine Street "uptown." Best in the South - the shops in the Quarter handle museum-quality merchandise.

Balconies, alleyways, Spanish moss hanging from live oaks, statues and sculpture - bring a camera and twice as much film as you think you`ll need.

Haunted history and cemetary tours...Swamp tours...plantation tours...ride on a paddlewheeler on the Mississippi

Preservation Jazz Hall

Come in Summer...it`s hot as Hades, but prices are deeply discounted. Can`t stand the heat? I`d been here a few times in early December and late March and had off-peak prices and great weather.

Come see why people rave about this most unique of American cities.

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