Day 3: New Orleans

Our original plans didn’t involve the WW2 museum but we had recommendations from a few other tourists, and we had time, so we thought we would check it out.

The best part was the additional movie we saw that Tom Hanks narrated about WW2 and how the US didn’t want to go to war, and then how they were in the war, and how the war changed the economy, industry and all the effects of the war. For the kids, there was interactive dog tags and you could follow around the soldier. We only spent a few hours there so we didn’t get to experience the whole museum.

Before we started our trip, the Swamp Bayou tour was already booked as I was thinking it might get booked up as the New Orleans Jazz festival is on the same time we were there.

We drove about an hour from the city to Honey Island Swamp which is on the Pearl River. Our captain and tour guide Zander had a very thick accent and said he had lived in the swamp his entire life. It was interesting that people still live on the swamp, some of them off the grid.

The boat tour was about 2 hours long , and we saw lots of alligators, birds and even raccoons. It wasn’t as hot of a day as the last few days and the rain was nice.

After the tour we headed to Costco, got a few things and had our dinner (pizza, salad and hot dog) at Costco watching the rain pour down.

Mileage: 81 milesRead more