Hauntings in New Orleans

hi everyone,

Well the bike tour has really got to that point where things just seem to be flying past , you would think that life goes really slowly as we can only go 80-100km a day but in a week that is a long way- there is so much to see and even though we are going the slow way there really seems to be so little time.

Anyway two days ago we went to NEw orleans - I really didn't know what to expect- thinking that hurricane katrina would have left very little behind - but infact we really didn't see any evidence of the hurricane - we did the usual touristy things like going to the french quarter of town and seeing all the art shops and bars and music and jazz clubs and of course the numerourous sex stores ( which makes a little country boy like myself blush - in fact one of the working girls even shouted at me ( as i walked down the stress looking straight ahead) that she had never seen someone blush so much )

I also went on an evening hauntted city tour - which was really fun - the guide a "certified" ghost hunter has spent years investigating the paranormal in New Olearns and really blended the history and stories and people and culture of the place into a really entertaining evening.

anyway we are back on the road and will be in Austin texas in a few days ( home of Lance Armstrong) and tehn on to Mexico.

hope everyone is well

Andy

Hunka Hunka Burning Love

Hey everyone,

well we have made it to graceland, after 46 days of cycling , we have made it to the spiritual home of elvis. Unfortunately things have changed since Elvis lived there, graceland is now in the bad side of town and we were told by several people to at no times stop on our way to Graceland.

however graceland is really cool , seeing all has cars, planes, gold records, three T.V.s, and of course all his jumpsuits, u can buy exact replicas of has jumpsiuts and although I said to andy I would where one all to the way to Rio if he bought it he balked at the $2000 USd pricetags .

Little known facts - elvis has sold over 1 billion records, he had green shag pile carpet on the ceiling of his living room and he met pricilla when he was 24 and she was 14 !!!, .

tomorrow we are back on the road again headed to New Orleans, and will be there in the next 2 weeks.

Andy

Happy birthday to me ;-)

I need to start by telling a tale that happened 7 years ago , the setting is Kazakstan and i was on another cycle tour - we had had a very long week cycling and we were relaxing in a sauna in the kazak capital when I told my biking companion that my birthday was in a few days - on the 29th of august - which to his amusement he informed me that it was now september and that I had missed my birthday by a week,

fast forward to the current trip, I was determined to not let the same thing happen again - I carefully cheaked the dates and worked out my birthday fell on a friday - we organsied our trip to have a rest day on that day , and we hired a car and drove to some impressive limestone caves in kentucky - we even went to denny's and I got a free sundee which my meal ............. two days later after a particurly long day of biking ( and being chased by dogs) , I picked up a paper to reliase that I had done it again and that my birthday had been the previous day and I hadn't known ;-)

once again the tour is going really well, we have met an amazing amount of hospitable people - and in the last two weeks have stayed two nights with Jim and Ruthie in milford, Jerry at has home in kentucky, and Bill in tennasee - we are starting to get used to people stopping us on the road and inviting us to stay at thier houses.

Andy

p.s saw my first hummingbird today at our campsite - there were bird feeders with sugar water there and at least 50 hummingbirds flitting around -

please visit andy and weilings blog they ahve got some great photos of the hummingbirds

at www.libertytoredemption.wordpress.com