We dropped Steve and Megan off at the airport and then started the seven hour drive up to Fort Payne, AL, which we chose as a convenient stopping point. There were only two things of note on the trip. First was the 23-mile bridge across Lake Pontchartrain. The lake is so wide that you can’t see the other side when you start the trip so it gives you an eerie feeling of driving off into nowhere. The second thing was the CD of Creole String Beans that Steve bought for us. We played the CD at least twice during the trip to supplement our books-on-tape and we still liked the music we heard at Jazz Fest. The trip was uneventful except for some heavy rain around Birmingham.
This blog features highlights from our 22-day driving trip through the South. We leave our home in the Philadelphia area with our ultimate destination being New Orleans to attend their Jazz Festival 2013 on the first weekend in May, but since we had stops in other cities also with great musical heritages such as Nashville, Memphis and Austin, we decided to call the trip our "southern swing".
Monday, May 6, 2013
Day 20 – New Orleans to Fort Payne, AL
We dropped Steve and Megan off at the airport and then started the seven hour drive up to Fort Payne, AL, which we chose as a convenient stopping point. There were only two things of note on the trip. First was the 23-mile bridge across Lake Pontchartrain. The lake is so wide that you can’t see the other side when you start the trip so it gives you an eerie feeling of driving off into nowhere. The second thing was the CD of Creole String Beans that Steve bought for us. We played the CD at least twice during the trip to supplement our books-on-tape and we still liked the music we heard at Jazz Fest. The trip was uneventful except for some heavy rain around Birmingham.
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