Day 14: AR to LA

Now that I am back home, I am hoping to wrap all this up.

When last I posted, I had made it through a night of horrible dreams and sweltering heat. I left the hotel in Blytheville and, due to my first apparent failing in my planning, I had to back track to Jonesboro, AR. I found the cemetery at Keller's Chapel easily enough. The legend goes that you can hear a baby crying at this location along with some other weird things. I could have sworn I heard something like a cry but...





I don't know if you can make it out in that picture, there was a house under construction behind the cemetery property. I think I heard the whine of a saw or some workers talking. At any rate, I stayed perfectly still but never heard the sound again.

Getting back on the road, I drove down into Mississippi to visit the town of...er, ok, I have forgotten the town name but the church in question was the Church of Christ beside a daycare. Luckily, all the kids were gone for the day or I wouldn't have been able to get so close. I took all sorts of shots but nothing creepy happened. Check out the iron work on this fence...



Pretty cool, I think. Getting done there, I drove straight down to New Orleans, getting stuck in some mild traffic (nothing like the Chicago fiasco). I checked into my hotel and walked over to the French quarter (trying and failing to find the statue of Ignatius Reilly). I took some shots that didn't come out so well but here is a poorly lit shot of a church from which a woman threw herself on her wedding day...



I wandered into a place called the Corner Bar and Oyster House (I think) and ate some Jambalaya. My bill came out to $42 dollars. I decided to walk over to the local casino and see if they were having any poker tournaments. When I got there, I decided to check my account balance and found I had $38 to my name! I had a flash of the hotel claiming they would place a hold on accounts for incidentals but they never asked me which account I wanted to do that with. I rushed back to my hotel and got online just to discover, yep, I really did only have 38 dollars. By the time I updated my accounts and moved some money around, I was pretty exhausted (also from lack of sleep the night before). I meant to go back down to the French Quarter and take more pictures but I fell asleep before that could be done. At least I had a solid 9 hours that night.

The final two days are coming soon...

Josh