Sane Defaults

Saturday started off painfully, as the check out time of th hotel was way earlier than seemed fair considering the amount of beer consumed. Spent a few hours in a public park and got breakfast at blue plate diner before we felt up to driving.

Once we got going it was a straight line down to New Orleans. Would have been an easy trip but some rainstorms made the trip pretty exhausting. Even had to pull over a few times due to bad visibility.

None of the hotels in our guidebook had vacancies because of the "Southern decadence" festival. The clerk at the hotel we ended up at described it as "gay mardi-gras". Booked a couple of nights this time so we would have enough time to see some of the sights.

Finished off the evening at a local eatery around midnight trying out some cajun food and local beer.

• Amber ale seems popular down south. It was the seasonal beer a bunch of places. The New Orleans local one, Abita, was tasty, but such a sweet beer seems weird for warm weather.
  
• Arriving in New Orleans we've driven about 1500 miles