Dreams of the Crescent City- Part I
Dreams of the Crescent City, Part I Our base of operations for the Big Easy rambles! As a musician, foodie and fan of all things historic, visiting New Orleans was a long time on my bucket list. Welcome to the first of what will likely become a series of blogs about it! In August 2016, my wife, aka Mrs. Good Life Ramblings, booked us for a few days at Club La Pension at 115 Decatur Street in the Central Business District (CBD), an easy walk to many of the most popular destinations in the city. We learned the fertile crescent shaped land that New Orleans sits upon was inhabited for thousands of years by the Chitimacha people and their ancestors. In 1542, Spanish conquistadors led by Hernando de Soto were the first Europeans to explore the region, but it was the French who esta...