New Orleans: the Big Easy. The City That Never Sleeps…

I had been with Ian and Jordan years ago on a cross country road trip for one night only. I ate three dinners and drank $3 beers and didn’t get home until 4 in the morning, after ending the night at Café Du Monde. The following day, a complete stranger taught us how to eat crawfish at Cajun Seafood (no one’s a stranger in NOLA really), and of course I vowed to come back.

Twelve years later, I returned for my Bachelor Party to find a city I did not at all recognize. The skies were gray and the streets were empty – at least emptier than I remembered. Granted we went in early May and didn’t see that much of it. But from all accounts, the city has changed.

Then again, what place hasn’t?