Bits From Bob v.7 New Orleans/San Antonio/New Mexico

New Orleans:

Riding bikes in the French Quarter

Waiting in the long line for Cafe Du Monde, and powdered sugary beignet donuts- delicious!

Becca enjoyed all the Cajun and Creole foods.  She even bought some ingredients and made us some Gumbo and strawberry pie- our best meal so far on the trip!

We saw a little Jazz group one night.  The youngest member was 83.

The tour of the above ground cemetery was very interesting- especially Nicholas Cage's future crypt...

On to San Antonio:  We walked around The Alamo and saw a very good movie about what went down.  You can see why Texans are a very proud people.

Becca with a "re-enactor" in front of The Alamo

 The tour on the river through the city was beautiful.  San Antonio has done a great job bringing people downtown.  The USO was the best I have ever seen.

If you look up "Strangest things to see in the USA", somewhere on the list you will find Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Museum.  We visited Barney- Becca got to sign the "Ohio" seat.  Barney is 93, and very proud of his work.  Very, very strange, but a very nice man!

New Mexico:  We did not get to Roswell to see the aliens- high winds and snow!
We did visit Carlsbad Caverns- what a sight.  Huge, huge cave.  Jan said it best- "Walt Disney must have come here before he started Disneyland".

 It was out of the way, but definitely worth the stop.  Another badge for Becca- the "Junior Ranger Extraordinaire"!