We meet for the Carivan

We are in New Orleans to join a fourteen-coach, nineteen-day caravan entitled LA Lagnaippe.  Our campground is two blocks from the French Quarter and near the start of our 10K volkswalk through the quarter.  We have not been here since before Katrina and find little changed right here, just a little seedier.  The art galleries and shops are filled with great temptation.  So are the cafes.  We yielded at one and savored our first cup of NO coffee.

If our first evening together is any indication, we will be enjoying many “things more.”  Our first meal together consisted of two choices of Gumbo, either “mild” or “spicy”. 

Then came a dessert of bread pudding, followed by our Lagniappe, Doberge cake, a traditional New Orleans dessert.

All of the food was prepared by special needs students at a local school.  So already we have begun with something more.  We are promised to put on at least 25 lbs. by the end of the caravan.

Our first morning started with a New Orleans breakfast of coffee and beignets.

  Powdered sugar rained everywhere.