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McDonalds again

Food.. Egg biscuit with a side of hash brown, and for j-man a small mocha coffee

Shelter.. Tornado warning and rain, so the car is muggy. This we are inside, hence the purchase of food

Wifi.. All day every day, and all night every night

Stepping back to New Orleans for a moment I want to share our last day adventures.. We stayed on a residential street around the corner from a Starbucks in a pretty new-age neighbourhood populated with some millennials and hipsters and New Orleans folk alike. The morning was rough, not going to lie, we almost parted ways. At one point J-man was on the sidewalk, sitting among his bags and clothes, while I sat on the curb, sobbing and ready to quit, by the open-doored car. He didn't leave. I didn't either. In exasperation we somehow ended up in the car with all of his stuff with an understanding that we weren't giving up, and then I asked him to drive. Things have been different since. 

We went to City Park and explored, talked things out, hiked around some trails, snuck into the showers at the tennis club, and then picked up dinner at Whole Foods. We found a spot on a hill in the park and watched the sunset. During our hike we found a post carved with words of peace and we made a cheesy vow and took a pic by it. 

As we were about to leave the park by nightfall a large group had gathered in the distance and upon investigation we were told it was a lantern parade. We re-parked the car and grabbed our lantern (you never know when you'll need one). For the next 2 hours we traipsed through swampy abandoned park paths and woods and over narrow bridges with a hundred other folks dressed in garb with a live band of horns, trumpets, drums and candlelight galore in New Orleans musical fashion, sight, and sound. 

At the end of it all, the tickle fights, real fights, and fights for what we know we have, we left for Alabama. To see whatever we might find together on our adventures.

Signing off from Fort Lauderdale McDonalds