Thanks for all the great suggestions guise. I wasn't able to to fit most of them in because reasons but there is always next time.
Suffice to say, we fell in love with the city. (at least the cool parts that we saw).
Our Air BnB on the outskirts of the French Quarter was tre cool.....
We were able to walk to the French Market section down by the Mississippi on Decatur Street where we had the famous Chicory Coffee and Beignets at Cafe Du Monde
First Day we took a a walking tour of the French Quarter including St Louis Cemetery Number 1
where Madam Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen, is interred (portrayed here by Angela Bassett in AHS Coven)
and where Nicolas Cage has controversially constructed a mausoleum for himself on the advice of another voodoo practitioner because he is supposedly cursed and needs ro be buried near Marie Laveau ...Gotta love Nicky Cage.......
https://notebookofghosts.com/2018/07/30 ... olas-cage/
The entire tour was very neat.
We also took the St Charles Line of the Trolley/Streetcar system..... (funfact: the guy in the blue shirt and leather jacket at the front of the car looks remarkably like a heavy version of me)
over to the Garden District
for Lunch at Joey Ks.
I had a sample type plate with Creole Gumbo, Jambalaya, Crawfish Etouffee and Red Beans and Rice....was delish
Commanders Palace will have to wait until next trip (though we did use their restroom)..... I didn't book it because I wasn't sure what we would be doing or what my wife had planned as a surprise...looked and smelled divine doe
The trolley system was cheap and pretty cool but there was supposed to be a line that ran right near our Air BnB but it was down due to the Hard Rock Hotel Collapse.....
Sorry for the downer....back to the fun......
We spent one evening over on Frenchmen Street.
Caught some great music and Fried Boudin Balls (sausage) at Club 30 by 90.....
Was less impressed with the music and food at Three Muses. A cold front hit and The temp dropped from 75 (which was pretty much the median the whole trip for us) to below 50 in the time it took us to eat dinner. Even after only being there a few days, that swing from warm and swampy to dryer and brisk made us call it a night a bit early.
The Final night we ate at Dick & Jenny's on Tchoupitoulas St ...... was quite good....
App = Crawfish Biegnets
She = Crab Cake over Fried Green Tomato topped with crabmeat
Me = Duck Confit in a sweet and Sour sauce
Then we walked down to Tipitinas to see the band we went to NOLA for, the Radiators!
Was super cool seeing them together again for the first time since they "retired" in 2011....after having seen them 30 times or so over a 9 year period from 2002.
Made cooler by it being in their backyard and the club that they got started at back in 1978. (They were the backing band for the legendary Earl King back then and Reggie, the bassist, had played with Professor Longhair, James Booker, Snooks Eaglin and Eddie Bo.)
Made even cooler by being surrounded by hundreds of die hard fans who have flown in from all over the country (think deadheads but cleaner, more educated and upwardly mobile). I am blocked by someone's hand just to the left of the right most pillar (about 6th row).
We actually call ourselves fishheads, because of a ton of band iconography being fish based).
Made the coolest by bumping into the guy Kevin who turned me onto the band back in 2002....Kevin and I drank together almost everyday back then and he was like a dysfunctional brother to me back in those days of wine and song....
It truly was a magical night, capping off a phenomenal trip....
I believe this will become an annual pilgrimage for me..... Yeah you rite.....