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New Orleans (06.2008)

A budget, "let's get out of town" trip for our anniversary, we head to The Big Easy. Rustem had always wanted to see the South; I hadn't been to NOLA since I was a teenager and though not particularly enamored of this city on the Mississippi, we decided to see what post-Katrina New Orleans was like, and help give the city a boost.
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Plantation guides.

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  • Twenty-eight Oak trees extend a quarter of a mile from the main house to the Mississippi River Road. Planted by an early settler, the oaks are 100 years older than the house, which took two years to build (1837-1839).
  • Love under the old oak tree.
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  • Pondering these amazing trees.
  • Roots & trunk.
  • Oak trees.
  • Hazy sunlight through the branches.
  • Cape Myrtle trees.
  • A great-grandson of Oak Alley’s owners still lives on the property in this house.
  • Plantation guides.
  • On the verandah. Oak Alley had 113 slaves. The house slaves alone had a value of more than $273,000 in today’s money.
  • View of the main house from the Mississippi embankment.
  • Across the street from Oak Alley, the Mississippi.
  • A Creole style plantation, Laura.
  • Creole homes are noted for their bright colors compared with American homes, which were traditionally painted white.
  • Laura detail.
  • Laura porch.
  • Laura grounds.
  • Spanish Moss hanging from tree.
  • "Just a little grasshopper”.
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