Headed to Georgia: via New Orleans

Yesterday we left Houston and drove to New Orleans. We wanted to go to Georgia, but decided to make a pit stop. There is also a restaurant that we wanted to try. It's called Cafe Du Monde. They had some really good beignets.

The trip didn't take as long as I had expected. It was only 6 hours. We left on Sunday after the morning church service. A long the way we found this place in that sold boudin balls and links. So we stopped to get some. They were actually delicious. I've decided that I like almost anything with rice in it.

We finally made it to New Orleans around dinner time and pulled into our hotel (the Blake Hotel). It was nice and served its function.

We decided that since we got there late, we would walk around the city to see if there was anything interesting.

As we wandered the streets, we stumbled upon Emeril's restaurant. I wanted to try it out. I had seen him on the Food Network and heard he had some great desserts..... as well as food. But we weren't too hungry so we kept on walking.

We finally got found Cafe Du Monde and the line was SUPER long.  In fact they had two lines. One was to be seated in the restaurant and the other was for the to-go window. You could order your beignets and coffee without having to be seated.

So we stood in line for about 15 minutes to get ours and boy was it worth the wait. They were delicious!!!

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After we grabbed our food we took it with us and walked around the city some more, but headed back towards the hotel. We just kind of kept on wandering until we made it back to our room.

We decided that we aren't big fans of New Orleans. It's just not our city. So we grab two more orders of beignets and went to the room. When we got up the next morning we already had our breakfast and got a jump start on the road. We left the hotel at 8:00 a.m. and didn't get into Savannah until 9:00 p.m. last night.

That was a super long trip. The longest part was driving through Florida on I-10. That seemed endless. I'm hoping we can find another route home.


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Here is the time line to show how far we went and the pit stops we made.... at least the ones I have pictures of.


We left New Orleans at 8:00 am and hit the Mississippi border at 9:53 am.

By 10:46 we had taken a slight detour to get some Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I haven't had them in a while. They left our are in Texas years ago and to be honest.......... they weren't as good as I remembered. I think Shipley's is the best.

By 11:15 we had crossed the border and were entering Alabama.

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Then before I knew it we were out of Alabama and into Florida. It's only 66 miles wide, according to Google, on I-10 from the  Mississippi border to the Florida border. So it only took us 57 minutes to drive the whole thing.

So around 12:15 we entered Florida. It took us 342 miles to get from the Alabama/ Florida state line to the 301 turn off that we took up to Georgia.

Then we took the 301 loop before Jackson, Florida and it took us 151 miles or 2 hours and 20 minutes to get to Savannah.

You can see from the picture below how far we are from Houston. It was kind of mind boggling how far we drove in a day. You can see the blue triangle in Georgia where we were.

Here is the Georgia state line.