Tag: 2024
-
New Orleans: Parting Thoughts
As I sit in the Atlanta airport during my layover on the way from Nashville, it seems like a good time to reflect back on my time in New Orleans. Being in a different city “every month” is conceptually simple, but the logistics of travel mean that what I usually mean by “month” is “four…
-
How To Enjoy a Jukebox Musical
The place that I’ve been staying in New Orleans is quite close to the Saenger Theater. Given how much I enjoyed my trip to the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, it seemed appropriate to attend a show here, too. They were doing a month of “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations”, so…
-
Money Shows: The Historic New Orleans Collection
One of the weekends in New Orleans my mom, younger sister, and brother-in-law drove down from Alabama to hang out for a couple of days. We didn’t have much time, but managed to eat some good food and check out one really interesting museum. The Historic New Orleans Collection wasn’t on my radar before this. …
-
Museums Are Complicated: The National WWII Museum
Inspired by my friend Debi, I’ve been trying to go to more WWII museums when I’m in other countries. It’s an event that was big enough that a huge number of places have them, and everyone has a unique perspective on the war and their nations’ context within it. So when I learned that the…
-
A Mardi Gras Triptych
When I was originally putting together my itinerary for 2024, while I knew I wanted to spend a month in New Orleans, Mardi Gras wasn’t really on my radar. I decided that February was the month that made the most sense to be here before I realized that February is also when Mardi Gras is.…
-
One Week In New Orleans
My train from Atlanta arrived late Saturday night. The apartment I’m staying in is only a couple of miles from the train station, but with all my luggage I figured it was worth catching a Lyft, which cost about $10. Got my keys and settled in. The space is really interesting. Clearly one of those…
-
Welcome to New Orleans
I arrived in New Orleans late Saturday night via Amtrak (more on that in another post, hopefully). Got checked into where I’ll be staying for the next five weeks, and I like it quite a bit. It’s out at the very edge of the French Quarter, and is clearly an industrial conversion. I don’t know…
-
Until Next Time, ATL
I’m working on this post from an Amtrak train to New Orleans. It’s pretty great that this is an option so I can skip the airport, but also says a lot that the station I’m in serves one train in each direction daily and nothing else. I might write another post about my train thoughts…
-
Family and Cognitive Dissonance (latter not caused by former)
My parents and youngest sister, along with her husband, made the 2ish hour drive up to Atlanta Friday so they could join the tour for a couple of days. At my mom’s suggestion, we met up at Ikea for Swedish meatballs and discounted home goods. We all enjoyed the meatballs, but only my mom partook…
-
Enduring Cultural Institutions
In the ancient days when I was in college, there were a couple of occasions when my friends and I would make the 2 hour drive to downtown Atlanta to attend performances at the Shakespeare Tavern. I have distinctly fond memories of seeing my first performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor there twenty years…