New Orleans

THANK YOU MAX, ZACK, AARON, and JESSICA!!!
We have been very blessed by the people that we have met on this trip. There are so many amazing people out there that have been so kind and generous to us, and none more so then the people we met in the wonderful city of New Orleans.
...Our adventure began by rolling into town and going straight to the French Quarter. We started walking around and then decided to give our landlord's sister a call who owns a restaurant in town (or so we thought). It ended up that the New Orleans location had closed the previous year, but she was in Houma (about a hour from the city) so we planned on hooking up with her the following day. But, in the meantime Lee told us to go check out a bar called the Bridge Lounge that is located around the corner from where the restaurant used to be and to ask for Max. We found the bar quickly and walked up just as they were opening. We walked in and asked for Max and told him that Lee sent us, these were the magic words, from that second on we were treated like family.
We bellied up to the bar, explained to Max how we knew Lee and next thing you know we are all riding our bikes down to the riverfront to go to GulfAid, a spur of the moment concert that was set up to benefit those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf. We had a terrific time watching authentic New Orleans music and street entertainers, as well as eating great southern food and to top it off, listening to Lenny Kravitz wail.
Max was then gracious enough to invite us to stay at his house for the evening which was a godsend because it was about 85 outside and we would have been in the van.
...end day one...