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Originally Posted by Exo
New Orleans is good for three things, jazz, food and debauchery. There is no open container law. There are ads for free body shots on a stripper of your choice when you buy a high shelf bottle of alcohol. Bourbon street is designed to get you as f*cked up as humanly possible and make you regret your life the day after. The cool thing though is that literally a block away art art galleries and old people walking hand in hand looking at all the buildings. The food is amazing. I have charbroiled oysters and a shrimp/catfish po'boy from the originating place, Parkway Bakery. It was out of this world. The jazz clubs were great but it was hard finding one without a cover. Those, so I've been told, are in the more seedier neighborhoods and I had been drinking a lot so I figured it'd be best not to venture in. So if you want to drink your face off and pig out on amazing seafood, go to New Orleans. It's a dirty scummy fun city that I could only take a night or to of but it's worth a stop.
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"Jazz, food and debauchery"-- yes, pretty much. That is precisely why I love it. (It's decaying and alive and terrible and great all at once) I used to live in Baton Rouge, so I've been several times, (always curious to hear what others think of it though) however I was young and drunk most of those times and did not ever get to see very much of it. Being able to drink straight from a bottle of bourbon/wine in the middle of the street is fantastic though, isn't it? I've been wanting to go to one of the smaller jazz festivals there. (Oh and yes, the seedier jazz clubs are always better.) Do you think you'll go again any time this year? If so, I was going to suggest a couple places but I can't remember the names of them right now for the life of me.
Oh and what about Austin? You mentioned seeing Donnie Darko or something there, I think..?
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The caverns were the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I got emotional in there. I had never really seen the Earth be so beautiful like that before and it wasn't crowded so I had a lot of time to myself in there. Cathartic experience.
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I agree! It was difficult to fight the impulse to duck under the side rail and crawl into one of the openings and just lie there. So otherworldly and beautiful.
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As for NM, I drove past a lot of those kind of towns but didn't stop much. I did however stay in Hobbs, New Mexico for a night and actually ate at a Chili's due to me having found a gift card in my room from God knows where. It was actually packed. Them people like their fast food disguised as actually cooked and prepared food.
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They love Chili's here in Texas too. The ONLY good thing there (for your future reference) is the blackberry iced tea. Chili's, Applebees and Denny's are like the unholy trinity of awful bland roadside dining.