Spring Break

Well spring break began with very little planning. My friends, Matt, Sam, and I left on thursday after school headed for Panama City, Florida. We drove straight through the night and arrived around 8 in the morning. We didn't plan to stay in any hotels so we found the perfect public parking spot. After we parked our car didn't move for 5 days. The first day we killed the battery and had to get it jumped and the second day we locked the keys in our hotel(car). We slept in the car for 5 days and in order to use restrooms we helped a man named Bayou. Bayou, who was a bar janitor, sported a weathered foo man shoo and a 3 foot long pony tail. Our parking spot was close to the back of a bar and a Wendys and we noticed Bayou in the mornings. So since we helped him clean up trash, we had unlimited access to the bar's restroom. In Panama, we played baggo on the beach and walked all over the main strip. In the mornings we would make a 2 mile journey to a bowling alley that a christian youth group from Texas A&M would give away free pancakes. We would hang out and shoot pool with the group. After 5 days of showering we began to notice the odor coming from our bodies. So we decided it was time to move on. We had originally planned on heading to Ft. Myers but instead we went to New Orleans. On the way to New Orleans we grabbed our only hotel and got a few uncramped hours of sleep and our only shower of the trip. We arrived in New Orleans on the morning of St. Pattys. We listened to some country bluegrass and ate oysters and gumbo. We also met our long lost friend Lenny Kravitz on Bourbon Street. We talked for a minute and then he wanted to get away.... and flyyyyyyy awayyyyyyyy. (Lenny Kravitz Song) After exploring the city we hung out with some real life hobos. Yes they are real. They were around the local rail yard. They each were waiting for different trains to catch going different places. They all smelled worse then us and they all had a dog that accompanied them. After they finished their what seemed to be water bottles... or at least they made it look like water when in reality it was vodka, we decided that we should maybe leave them alone. So that night we slept in a local parking garage and viewed the WWII museum the next morning. It was extremely interesting and the reason the museum is in N.O. is because of Andrew J. Higgins. Higgins created and manufactured military beach landing boats in New Orleans. General Eisenhower was quoted saying, "Without the boats we would have had to rethink the war's strategy". After the museum we headed to Memphis and planned on seeing Graceland until we noticed how expensive it was and how broke we were so we just headed home.