I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

Amager Traveler episode 476.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about a destination.

We talked about 474 episodes ago.

We talk about Po-boys and Indians, but neither of those kind. We talk about Jazz, Binay's, and Bourbon Street as we go to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. With no further ado, let's talk about New Orleans.

I'd like to welcome to the show Jill Robinson a freelance journalist from danger

Jill Robinson.com who has come to talk to us about New Orleans. Jill welcome to the

show. Thank you. thanks for having me.

And I feel like saying finally welcome to the show because we've been friends for a little while

by this point and just finally got around to talking about where we should talk about.

We have done a show on New Orleans. I'm not saying that it has been a while, but Katrina

hadn't hit New Orleans yet and this is the 10-year anniversary this year. So it's possible that some things have changed.

Definitely things have changed. I mean things got obviously very bad during and after Katrina and a lot of the city still has some issues in terms of like the

outer areas that just haven't been focused on for rebuilding but the city has

bounced back in a fantastic way and I think that if folks haven't gone yet since Katrina

This is definitely the time to go. Well, and I haven't been since Katrina and the place I stayed we had a friend who was actually working for the New Orleans Hornets at the time and he was living in a brand new apartment building right near the cruise terminal and it is gone.

It was so severely damaged by the hurricane that it was torn down

so I know that large portions of the city I assume I would recognize but why

should someone go to New Orleans?

Let's start with the obvious.

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