We started in New Orleans, where we spent a couple of days and then boarded the train to Memphis, rolling through the swamps and bayous north of New Orleans and then through Mississippi.
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| View of the French Quarter and the Mississippi River from our hotel in New Orleans |
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| We took a couple of streetcars to get around town |
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| The National World War II Museum is in New Orleans - a very big complex where we spent a few hours. Here's Henry manning the periscope on a submarine in the South China Sea. Unfortunately, the Japanese sunk it a few minutes later. |
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| The French Quarter |
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| A rug shop had a cadre of about a dozen cats - including Emerald and Wilson look-alikes in the window |
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| Walking around Lafayetee Cemetery, where people are buried in crypts above ground since the elevation is so low. People are dying to get in here! |
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| Boarding the train |
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| Swamps of New Orleans |
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| Mississippi Delta - the most fertile farmland on the planet and the birthplace of the Blues |
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