New Orleans: Garden and Uptown

This morning we brazenly left the car in the parking lot of the visitor center and walked over to Canal Street. We then took the streetcar down to St Charles Avenue and then began a long, slow trek through the Garden District and into Uptown.

When the streetcar was about to turn north on Carrollton, we got off and stuffed face in a very cozy cafe whose name has forever escaped my mind. Then we walked a good way back again, taking lots of pictures, before getting on a streetcar. I got off near the World War II museum, while Astrid kept riding to the French Quarter to engage in the one activity her genes have prepared her for: cooking sewing knitting cleaning bearing children shopping.

All Garden/Uptown pics here.

Two streetcars on Canal Street. Traditionally, Canal Street marked the end of the French quarter and the beginning of the American parts of town. For this reason it is known as "neutral ground" locally. A lot of streets change names on the other side of Canal.


The Children's Museum. Again, I'm not sure if this falls within the technical borders of Garden/Uptown, and again I couldn't really give a fuck.


All along St Charles, the oak trees have wreaked havoc with the sidewalk. Surely, according to the "Americans With Disabilities Act" (a real law!) these must be cut down, so that every fucker in a wheelchair might access every tiny square inch of the street. I demand justice, and I demand it NOW!


Random purdy buildings and sights. This street really holds a most ecclectic collection of grand, well maintained mansions and decrepit old shacks. Sometimes a combination. I wish I had a couple of million dollars lying around. Le sigh.