New Orleans, 3/8-2004

Hi all 

    Well… The contents of the last few mails including this one will probably be a lot shorter for two reasons. Firstly, because I’m going through states I’ve already written about, but mainly, because I predict a dramatic increase in the consumption of alcoholic beverages from here on… I will try to be sober when writing, but I find it fairly possible that the entertainment value of what I write will decrease, as my memory of events deteriorates… Fairly warned be ye all.

    The last stretch of my tour of the south east with Johs and Karen was a little disappointing. I find that the great cities of the east coast are fairly similar to each other, and while there were interesting things to see in all of them, we saw no great need to spend more than a day in each.

    Returning to New York then, I met up with the third and final set of imported Danes, Jacob and Mads. We spend three days in New York, seeing the city and the sights. We more than once attempted to go see the Museum of Natural Science, but each and every time we got sidetracked by the intervention of weather, bars, and a bad case of indifference.

    Having thus set the standard for our trek across the states, we headed south. Our stay in Atlanta was short and somewhat reminiscent of New York, the weather apparently having followed us down from the Big Apple and the bars there equally capable of slowing us down. Now however we have outrun the rain and settled in to a four days stay in New Orleans. We have picked up one of my Malaysian buddies, Kit, and are expecting nothing but good times, fair weather and bad hangovers from here on out.

    I will write you again before I fly home from San Francisco (provided I remember anything), but in the meantime leave you with the website, newly updated with pictures of the south-east.

    Yours in brief,

Martin