NOLA tour

frogmouth3
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:06:42 +0000

I wanted to add a follow up to this thread. H and I did the Confederacy of Cruisers bike tour ([Home Confederacy of Cruisers](http://confederacyofcruisers.com/)) and I gotta give it a rave review. (D wanted us to go away and not seem too needy while she finished up her last day of the NOLA Experience last Friday.) It is a great intro to New Orleans in all its quirkiness, and SO much cooler (figuratively speaking) than a bus tour. Our tour guide (Laura) was a young woman with a great sense of humor, good patter and general affability. She began with an overview of some features that make NOLA unique. The tour is easy, covering maybe 5 miles over 3 hours on big, wide-tire beach cruisers. (A pregnant grandmother could do it!) There are pit stops for drinks, a tour of a cemetery (if the group desires) and plenty of local color in Marigny, Bywater and St Roch. Even tho I had some misgivings about the heat index it was still great and they provide everyone with bottled water too. I recommend you drag the offspring along too next time you visit, because I KNOW they will learn a few new things while having fun (even if by then they are NOLA know-it-alls.)