Driving Around - Day 12

A nice quiet day so far. We slept in a bit this morning for really the first time on the trip, but still got to Central Grocery by 11AM for lunch. Today's prize - The Muffuletta. It's a huge, $12 sandwich. A large flat round roll (loaf) is stuffed with thick, freshly sliced meats and cheeses and topped with some pickled veggies, mashed up olives, garlic and anchovies...it beats oil and vinegar by a mile.

After that, we walked it off for a while before taking out the car for a tour. We looked for the 9th ward, but I'm not sure we really found it. There were a lot of homes with the Katrina circles, exes, and numbers, but it really didn't seem devastated the way people have been describing to us.

We then found the Tulane Medical Center, but had been looking for the main Tulane campus. We went to the wrong part of town, and gave up on trying to find it.

During a Biloxi bachelor weekend years ago, we had taken a limo ride to New Orleans for the day. As we approached N.O. we went across a cool, long, low-lying bridge. We programmed Biloxi in to the GPS to just enjoy the ride. The bridge was about 20 miles from New Orleans, and along the way we saw a lot of the horrible devastation. So many abandoned homes and entire developments and towns were deserted. It was somewhat eerie seeing an entire 6 Flags amusement park that was a ghost town.