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Day 3 of Road Trip Winds Thru New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward

Posted by PapiBlogger on Wednesday June 23rd, 2010 at 01:19 PM

Cafe Du Monde is a national breakfast treasure that's not to be missed.

Day Three of the family road trip took us to explore more about New Orleans’ regional flavors as a food capital of the U.S., its history rich French Quarter and its brush with catastrophe during Katrina.

Cafe Au Lait and a bite of a Beignet are the focus of your time at Cafe Du Monde.

We started the day at Cafe Du Monde, easily the nation’s most famous coffee place and a fixture of the French Quarter. It just took Elena one sip of the Cafe Au Lait and a bite of a Beignet (a French version of the Mexican Sopapillas except with powdered sugar) for her to officially declare Cafe Du Monde her favorite breakfast spot in the nation. When you go, don’t expect anything else at Cafe Du Monde because that’s literally all they serve at this 24/7 landmark! (more…)

Tags: Cafe Du Monde, French Quarter, Katrina, Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans
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Day 2 of Road Trip takes us through three states and a Bourbon-less New Orleans

Posted by PapiBlogger on Tuesday June 22nd, 2010 at 07:19 PM

The second day of the PapiBlogger Family Road Trip took us on a nearly 11 hour, 590 mile long drive from St. Augustine to New Orleans.

Although driving through the whole of Florida, as we have, is the most dullest driving you will ever do because it’s almost fully flat, parts of northern Florida near Tallahassee actually have scenic hills. When going through Alabama on your way to New Orleans, you’ll want to have the kids awake to see the underwater tunnel in Mobile (always cool) and if you have a couple moments you’ll also want to pitstop in Alabama to see Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. We didn’t have time to pause more than we already did for food (we had a terrific meat lover’s stop at Sonny’s BBQ in Marianna, FL) but if we did we would have also added the still unspoiled beaches of Pensacola. I stopped there once 20 years ago during another drive to New Orleans and remember being captivated by it’s white beaches.