(here's just one of the jaw-droppingly beautiful homes in the Garden District. It's not John Goodman's house, though).
Speaking from experience, let me tell you a walking tour is the best way to get to know a town. We've taken them in Berlin and London and they were excellent.
I'll be brief today because we're trying to take another one here that starts in about an hour and a half. We walked through the Garden DIstrict, just me and Mec and our guide, a man named Roberts. The man had so much info in his head about the homes, the foilage and the people who live in the homes -- we were both extremely impressed.
During the tour Roberts is telling us how Ann Rice has had such an impact on the area; how she's bought and sold several houses there and the fact that actor Nicolas Cage now owns one of her homes. He told us that on a past tour, no sooner did he point out this fact, than the famous actor himself walks out of the house. His tour-ees were very impressed.
So during our tour, we're standing in front of a gorgeous mansion that used to belong to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Roberts is telling us that Reznor sold the house a little while ago and sold it to actor John Goodman. No sooner does he tell us this - guess who should walk out to the porch smoking a big old stogie?
Roberts has a gift y'all.
more later.
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