Austin is different than the rest of Texas. More liberal and progressive, we would say. You can find a lot of vegetarian and even vegan restaurants (we avoided them for the most part) and a whole lot of fair-trade, local, organic stores, cafés etc. And you’ll find a lot of Food Trucks. We tried our best to eat through all of them but we failed. Sorry, we did our best, there were just tooo many. But the ones we tried were…
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” – Tennessee Williams So after two weeks in different parts of Cleveland, we finally visited one of the three cities, according to Tennessee Williams. Of course we spent a lot of time at Mardi Gras parades here. But there are still different faces of NOLA we went to see. The French Quarter, Treme and Marigny, several parks and squares, food like Po-Boys and Beignets, the roots…
Damn, that’s what happens when you let women touch the dials of your Tardis, now we’re stuck in the 18th century. So lets just go and visit my old friend Noble Jones at Wormsloe, the plantation he established. Unfortunately, we flew straight through his house while attempting to land… Sorry for that, Old Jones! Some history… 1733, the year General James Oglethorpe and the 120 passengers of the ship “Anne” landed along the Savannah River. Among the passengers was Noble Jones. Oglethorpe named…
