New Destination - New Adventures

Our countdown to New Orleans is starting today.

Twelve more sleeps until we board a plane for my very first visit to the United States.

I am excited but a little tentative.

I don't know how I will react to some of the new experiences awaiting me.

One of the quirky things I want to do is taste the delights of drive thru's - I've heard of many of them but I can only image what they are like until I try them for myself.

I have heard on In-N-Out and Popeyes - what is Biscuitville?

If there is one you think we should sample, let me know in the comments.

Other than the food, I have never experienced the tipping culture that is in the US so that will be quite different and also currently our AUS$ is absolute shit so I will still have to count my pennies.

New Orleans is a bucket list destination for me as I have done a number of podcast episodes on True Hauntings Podcast and we have talked about some of the more haunted sites in the area.

But, actually visiting and setting foot onto those places will be another level of excitement.

We have a lot of different activities planned including a Seance with Bloody Mary, a cemetery tour, and vampire tour, visiting Myrtles and staying overnight, a riverboat cruise and more.

Stay tuned to the blog for all of the details as we prepare and then take the trip of a life time.

This is being co ordinated and run through Mysterious Adventures based in the USA and we are acting as hosts for our group on intrepid ghost hunters mostly from Australia.

Just before I finish this post this trip was a long time coming. We had originally planned to go and we were soooo close - only weeks out with everything paid for and flights booked with 20 people coming with us. Then Covid lockdown happened and we had to scramble. We had a long look at the situation and asked everyone what they wanted and most of us were to scared to travel so we had to cancel and try and get s much money back as possible.

Through the hard work of Anne ( my business buddy) she managed to get everything minus a small amount people lost and everyone had to deal with their own airfare credits.

Fingers crossed this is now a clear run to the finish line.

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