Highway To New Orleans

Went to New Orleans on Saturday to extend the rental on my car, was a bit of a disaster was planning on going into town afterward but left it pretty late. It took me a lot longer at the car rental place as well, came away with a different car, well a guess technically not a car it was a 4 wheel drive Jeep. Realised as soon as I started driving it that it was heavy on petrol, good job its cheep over here, at 15mpg in town it needs to be. Petrol or gas as they call it here is running about $2.60/gallon, every American thinks it’s expensive but every Britt thinks it’s cheap.
It was getting pretty late and dark when I left the rental place so thought I would give New Orleans a miss until next time, I wanted to take some photos when I got there and it was too dark.

Took these two photos when i was crossing the bridge into New Orleans. It's a bit of a strange feeling as on both side there is water and the bridge i was on was hit pretty hard by Katrina, the one next to it was knocked down, they are just rebuilding it now.

So off I drove back to Diamondhead which is probably about 80 miles from New Orleans.
Got back and decided to check out the local bar (Jackie Os) ended up staying there all night, too

many beers, did get talking to some of the

local who all seemed pretty nice.

Arranged to try and go to New Orleans again the next day, Sunday, got up pretty late though and just did not feel like it, had a really lazy day doing nothing, just eating and watching TV.

This is the new car, don't really like it and it's heavy on petrol like i said, and I'm doing an average of 80 miles a day just back and forward from work. Think i will try and change it again next weekend, means another trip to New Orleans as long as I'm not at work, if I'm not working I'll get up earlier this time and get going.

Am about 6 days late posting this and nearly another week has gone by, pretty uneventful except today got to work and were told that to expect a lot of rain and some pretty heavy winds for Hurricane Humberto that made landfall last night on the border of Texas and Mississippi. All day was spent battening down the hatches, moving things inside that could blow away, apparently it can get pretty windy even on the very outskirts of these hurricanes.

The photo on the right doesn't really do the clouds justice but they were really dark and moving our way, with lots of thunder and lightning as well.

Oh one more thing on site we have snakes and spiders, poisonous ones that is. There's black widow spiders around but every time i try and get a photo of one, someone kills it before i get there.

Don't see snakes very often, in fact I've never seen one but they are there. Someone saw a cotton mouth this morning, sort of a cousin of the rattle snake i think. Have told everyone i want to get some photos so hopefully will get some soon.