Wednesday April 11, 2012

Time to check out of our cabin and head into the "Big Easy" for a couple of days. We had a bit of time to kill before we could check into our downtown hotel that we decided to do a bit more exploring on the Tammany Trace. We drove to the town of Covington LA where the rail trail starts.

 

We rode through the town of Abita Springs LA, famous for its microbrewery.

 

We made today's ride a little shorter and returned to Covington for lunch and a brief stroll around town. Very quaint. Not sure what Ronald Regan had to do with the history here though?

 

We took the 24 mile causeway across lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans. The weather was just starting to deteriorate a bit with rain and thunderstorms in the forecast. We got checked into our hotel around 3:00 pm.

Our hotel was two blocks from Bourbon St and we decided to go on a quick exploratory walking trip. It was late afternoon but you could quickly tell what kind of a place this would be after dark.

 

It started to lightly rain and we heard a bit of distant thunder so we retreated back to our hotel at around 4:30.

We checked the weather and it looked like we may get a window of opportunity to get out for supper. Not wanting to go too far with still more storms in the forecast, we chose the #35 out of 665 rated restaurants on TripAdvisor.com, the Acme Oyster House. We figured it must be good because it was the only place we saw on our way there with a line up down the street.

The wait was less than 30 minutes and we ended up sitting at the bar. A small place but the food was local. We had gumbo, a shrimp & oyster po-boy and chicken jambalya.

It looked like things were just starting to pick up on the streets as we headed home, tired from a long day.