New Orleans Jazzfest
Posted on | June 2, 2009 | 13 Comments
I don’t have too many words for this trip really (but a whole lot of feeling!), and that’s part of the reason that this post is so belated, but I have a bit of a backlog going, so let’s see if I can bang this out!
I love my life, but the decisions that Tad and I have made have meant that we’ve done a minimum of traveling to date. I wouldn’t change this, because all that is what built the values and goals we have now, but I can understand now how people get bit with the traveling bug and never let it go. It was a great experience, and it was entirely infectious. I want to go back. I want to visit a million other places. I wanted to know more. About the places, the people, the history. The music was incredible, and everywhere. The atmosphere… The food… The people… It was an enduro road-trip, made so much fun by our traveling companions, and particularly our guide. But it got under my skin in a way that’s hard to describe. Challenging. Exciting. Humbling. I want more.
So, where have you visited that’s gotten under your skin? I’d love to hear about it!
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Now playing: Ani Difranco – Red Letter Year Reprise
via FoxyTunes
Not something we heard while there, but an NO resident and a great brass band, to give you some of the flavor!
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June 2nd, 2009 @ 9:49 pm
nice…I love the pictures, and New Orleans is also one of those places for me! Also, Toronto.
June 3rd, 2009 @ 2:28 am
Hm.
Prague.
June 3rd, 2009 @ 4:16 am
Oh, I really loved Berlin. Young, artistic, old and new.
And I absolutely adored England (Everything! People, gardens, houses – just adorable and lovely!)
If I ever get over the fright of flying a place to go would be Quebec. And P.E.I.
And Japan. And of course New Zealand, to visit my friend there.
To be honest, I could spend my life travelling and exploring.
Maybe because I know I have a home to come back to. Who knows.
June 3rd, 2009 @ 9:00 am
i love your photographs – really beautiful and expressive images – especially the 4th one down.
places – southern California, the Baja. and even Arizona. desert or ocean. or best desert and ocean together.
June 3rd, 2009 @ 11:43 am
I love how atmospheric your photos are Mel! I know what you mean about traveling …some of my desire for new locations is satisfied by actual moves we’ve made (although that gets harder and more exhausting to do)…..however in terms of just places I want to explore more I have huge hankerings for old European cities at the moment….cobbled streets and old buildings…beautiful doorways …and lots and lots of history! My husband just got back from Paris (his first time there) and his enthusiasm for the place has rubbed off on the rest of the family!
Our next adventure (after we have relocated to our house in Massachusetts) is a trip to Montreal in August….I’m very excited about that!
June 4th, 2009 @ 8:03 am
Oh no – I knew this would happen! You all are adding to my already very long list!
June 4th, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
Oh, I love your photos – you seem to spot similar things to me (like flaking paint on a door!). I love really really old cities, where you can walk down streets that have been there for hundreds and hundreds of years and where, if you are minded to look up and dream a little, you can see traces of lives lived all those years ago. My experience of places like these are all European really. Like Katrin, Berlin gets my vote, but for the more recent historical interest (plus family connections).
June 4th, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
Awesome photos Mel! To me, NO is a very textured and eccentric place and you really captured that well. Where to next?
June 4th, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
Paris! California! New Orleans! Almost everywhere I go gets under my skin! We haven’t traveled much in several years and it’s very rough on my Sagittarius nature.
June 6th, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
I was in New Orleans a year ago for a conference – my biggest disappointment was not being able to really explore the place. We strolled through the French Quarter a few times, did the Mississippi boat tour and ate some great food! It did get under my skin and I want to go back. I live in central British Columbia and I’ve travelled in the states, but this place was really different.
The other places that have fed my soul are Vancouver (I go as often as I can) and a solo drive across Canada.
June 14th, 2009 @ 10:55 pm
Hi there. Found your site via Kat Coyle’s new site, and I’m glad I did!
I live near Vancouver BC, and honestly have to say that there are two cities so far that I really do long to return to. One is Quebec City, the other is Charleston, NC. I was there in ’98 (detoured due to a hurricane). I would return in a heartbeat.
June 21st, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
What a great photographic story of your trip to NO! Sounds like a fantastic time!
Definitely the trip that got under my skin was to Kenya. Simply put: it put ‘Africa in my Blood’ (to borrow the title from my favorite Jane Goodall book).
By the way–hi. :) I’m back and slowly easing back into things. More than blog comments to come!
July 27th, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
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