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| Canal Street Streetcar - My favorite mode of transportation |
Seven Days in New Orleans - City Park and Medical Emergency - Yes, you read the title right. The last 36 hours for me in New Orleans have not been the best. I'll let the photos tell you the story. I did begin Saturday riding my favorite New Orleans transportation mode -- the streetcars. I rode out to City Park to visit the Museum Of Art and visited the Sculpture Gardens and did some walking in the park. Back at the hotel Saturday afternoon I decided to walk 1.1 miles to the Amtrak station. While not lost, I did fail to make a turn I should have and ended up walking through lots of parking exits for parking garages for U.S Post office and near the Superdome and adjacent area. Unfortunately, I tripped over one of the high curbs and fell on my left hand. While I felt okay, I decided to go to the Tulane Medical Center emergency room. Fortunately, I did not break any bones and they diagnosed I had a left hand contusion. They did give me a Technic shot and bandaged my wound.
Whether because of "nerves" or a actual stomach virus, I ended up throwing up most of the night and did not recover and actually slept about 5 am this morning so I stayed in bed and slept until just past 1 pm. Went to nearby soft frozen yogurt shop and ate yogurt for late lunch and then back to the room to sleep part of the afternoon. So Sunday was my day of sleeping and resting. Visited the executive lounge of hotel and had couple pieces of catfish for evening meal so hopefully I am mending. Right now, looks like Monday and Tuesday may be days of not much activity. Wednesday I depart on my nine day Amtrak adventure.
Here are my selected photos from Saturday and one of me resting in my favorite chair today, Sunday.
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| Canal Street with frequent streetcars to multiple destinations |
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| City Park Museum of Arts |
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| Entrance to the Sculpture Garden |
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| Typical sculpture in the park |
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| I like this sculpture of bench sitters |
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| i decide to join this guy on the bench |
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| Yes, a safety pin sculpture |
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| Back near the hotel I decided it was "sno-ball" time |
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Amtrak City of New Orleans departing on Saturday.
This is the train I will depart on Wednesday, May 27
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| Visited the Tulane Medical Center Emergency Room |
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Visited the Tulane Medical Center Emergency Room
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| Thanksfully, only a contusion and no broken bones |
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| Sunday, A forced day of rest mostly in bed but some here in my favorite chair |
May not be many pictures Monday and Tuesday but I'll plan to do another blog update post Tuesday evening. Incidentally, I now know if I do two blog posts on same day, the two blog posts are combined into only one email and not two separate emails as I mentioned in previous updates.
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