Day 31, New Orleans, 2 blocks off Bourbon/Canal Street

We stayed in New Iberia so that we could tour an antebellum mansion, built prior to the Civil War. Shadows-on-the-Teche is a brick antebellum home constructed between 1831 and 1834 by sugar planter David Weeks and his wife, Mary Clara Conrad. Now a museum and property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Classical Revival-style. It features eight white columns across the front facade, over 17,000 paper documents, original photographs, and furnishings. http://www.shadowsontheteche.org/

The bricks of the house were made with the clay by the bank of the bayou and one could see the window glass slump. Again, big 150 year old live oaks were scattered around the grounds.

Angie, this is there cistern. no curved bricks. All were flat sided and laid at angles.

Shirleen's favorite statue in the adjoining gardens.

These are pedals from the Chinese wisteria fallen on the round and int the pond where gold fish are nibbling at them.

We found this an interesting home, the first floor rooms can only be entered from the outside, not room to room. That is a marker of the style; she said French classical revival. The second floor has interactive doors between the bedrooms. The furnishings are rich and decorative, horsehair chairs, original paintings from the family. A couple taking the tour with us asked if the portraits had there clothing done before the artist saw the person and when he came to the home painted the persons head to the prefinished body. Can’t remember what he called the procedure.

We headed on the back road LA 182 to take in the real land. The homes ranged from the antebellum home to the small, I mean small homes. These had two front doors, so you would think that it housed two families with probably a sleeping room and an open room, small like the shotgun houses you see scattered across the nation in the poor south.




We ate at The Forrest restaurant in Franklin LA. What a nice buffet, southern fried chicken, shrimp Etouffeé, sausage, beans and rice to name some of it and the items we ate. Shirleen had one of the biggest freshly baked chocolate macadamia nut cookie.




This is an appropriate shot with the cities name.

As we walked to dinner we passed this shut down religious store's sign.

Here is the street scene everyone thinks the city is made of. Actually the streets stink and are messy, much like everytime I have been here.

Michelle, found a neat old store, as you can see on Canal/Dauphine street. The neon lights must be some of the oldest around.

We then entered the city and pulled up to the Comfort Inn & Suites two blocks off Canal and Bourbon streets. I shut off the car and thought I should leave it run the AC for Shirleen, I went to start it and yes dead as a door nail. I pushed the OnStar and no response, tried the car again and nothing. Thank goodness we were at the hotel. I called the Cad assistance center and they arranged a jump start or pull to the Cad garage. I went out and thought I may as well try it, yes it started. OnStar connected me with the local Cad dealer and tomorrow we will give it another shot.

We walked over to Deanie’s Seafood close by for dinner. They serve as an appetizer potatoes boiled in cayenne and crab oil, complimentary. Shirleen’s cat fish Po Boy was spicy for her and she got my shrimp, me the fried oysters and some of my cat fish. We left a large amount of fish, I told the waiter I was sorry we had. He said his cooks put it in a large box and set it out for the homeless at the end of the night. Jerr