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I don't think that 1 week is too long. You can spend your days eating, wandering, drinking, taking day trips to planations or other...

Chicago....no contest. I've been to both and what I like most about Chicago is, its easy to find interesting, "off the tourist trail"...

yeah, a tour is your best bet unless you know folks who live in Lancaster County or other Amish areas. I went to high school in Lancaster...

DC is only 2 hours from Amish country. It's actually quicker to get there than to Philly b/c of traffic. There are greyhound and other...

1. Lots of locals refer to the French Quarter as the Quarters so you are not wrong in saying that....

Frenchmen has been a scene for ages....it become more a tourist scene in the past 4 years, if that is what you mean....

That hotel is nice. My friend just got married there. The street that it is on is pretty dead at night but just around the corner there...

St. Ann and Bourbon unofficially marks the start of the "gay side" of Bourbon Street. Lafitte's in Exile is a good bar, a good club is Oz....

Mardi Gras day is March 8, which means the days leading up to it are the biggest celebration. Especially the weekend before. Wednesday...

I camped on the river outside of Arches for 2 nights and it was amazing. I would recommend that, rather than trying to find a hotel....

I have lived here for 7 years and I too am a magnet for mosquitos. Fortunately I don't have the reaction you have. They are here, in the...

If you are not looking for Louisiana specific food, there is a pretty good Indian restaurant just off I-10, still in Baton Rouge but south...

Some car rental places will pick you up. I'm thinking specifically of Enterprise. It's not an extra cost.

ooops. didn't even realize that's how I wrote it, guess it does imply that. You can ask a park ranger to take you though. They're pretty...

http://www.nps.gov/jela/barataria-preserve-trails.htm Right when you open the link, to the right, trail map link