... after last nights meal, we slept late today. Got out of bed at noon, found a local restaurant called Daisy Dukes that served breakfast all day, and had a wonderful country breakfast. We then went to a local kitchen store, and found that we could sign up for a demonstration of Louisiana cooking, so we signed up for tomorrow. Then today we walked to a local art gallery that had Peter Max as their highlighted artist. We saw some other artists there that we reall...

So this morning we had a reservation for the jazz brunch at Court of Two Sisters... the jazz was very nice but too short, and the food was too mayonnaise-y for my taste - and they charged extra for orange juice! The eggs Benedict was good, as well as the ribeye slices and pecan pie. I doubt I would go back.. maybe for a dinner which I hear is better... Did I mention that it rained most of the day? We took a bus tour of the city, including the garden district, the...

Did you know that Southwest had senior prices? I didn't, until I paid $60 each, o ne way to New Orleans. Pretty terrific, yes? And the flight was easy, even from LAX. We arrived before 8:30, checked into our hotel (the Monteleone) and were given a room on the 10th floor - and someone had smoked in it - so we headed down with the porter to change rooms. We were apologetic about it - but the desk staff was even more so! They gave us an upgrade to the rooftop and tw...

What a beautiful island!! Then Fort hotel has a working cannon as it started as an actual fort. White House is the president's palace. Dominica was created 26 million years from volcanic eruptions . Temperatures is 75 and 85° year round with 85% humidity and 300 inches of rain per year. Independence in 1978 but Dominica is still part of the British Commonwealth Changed back and forth from being dominated by French and British four times. There's six distinct...

We hired a driver who then brought 4 other people to our vehicle - and we were relegated to the back of the van. If you know me, I was not happy - I couldn't take photos from the back, I couldn't hear his description of our surroundings and I couldn't have him stop for photos when we came upon something interesting. I managed to glean some interesting points though Our driver Augustin told us this island's 110,000 population had 36 acres of reclaimed land. In 149...