Honeymoon in New Orleans


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Planning a vacation? Why not New Orleans? It's one of my favorite cities in the world and I've returned to it many times over the years. I wrote this travelogue told in fictional form about my favorite places to visit, dine, and stay overnight in The Crescent City and Louisiana. My travelogue also includes helpful websites to consider before planning your next vacation. Here's what one reader wrote about this book: "Light and enjoyable read. Highlights some of the best of New Orleans. I am a recent traveler to New Orleans and enjoyed Louise Hathaway's recount of this romantic city."




New Orleans Honeymoon Travel Planner


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This New Orleans Honeymoon Travel Planner allows you to thoroughly plan for your trip. Plan your budget, research places of attractions and famous eateries before you start your vacation. Write down car flight, car rental and hotel information for quick reference in one place. Record down all the fun details in this notebook journal so you can keep the memories fresh by referring to that section. This New Orleans Honeymoon Travel Planner for women contains space for you to record your to do lists for the day, record actual spending and thoughts on the attractions. T️his New Orleans Honeymoon Travel Planner is designed to be fit your every travel needs. It is an awesome travel gift for women. Order this New Orleans Honeymoon Travel Planner now!




A Louisiana Gentleman and Other New Orleans Comedies


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Both anthologies are about New Orleans: the past and the present. This author has grown up in this city, and there is certain timelessness about it - the past definitely influences the present. All the plays are permeated with the sensuousness, decadence and bewilderment of brave and driven people living in chaos, confusion, extreme pleasure and delight. I hope you get a taste of this rich jambalaya of life as you experience these plays. Volume One contains modern plays set in pre-Katrina New Orleans, the City that Care Forgot. After I founded Southern Repertory Theatre in New Orleans, we initiated a new play festival to develop new voices and a friend challenged me to write. My play, Wishing Aces, won me a Senior Fulbright Research Specialist grant to Paris. From then on, I stopped writing textbooks and wrote plays primarily about New Orleans. When shaping a play, I take a question that disturbs me that I can't figure out, such as: why can't this professor and this student communicate in a profound way? Why can't this mother set boundaries for her out-of-control son? What would it take for that to happen? I then look at voice and structure, using the names of people from my life (I may change these later) to get the right phrasing and tone. I put these ghosts in my play, pick the most haunting place in New Orleans, and use cards to come up with an outline of scenes. Place inspires that sense of mystery that is so important to the theatre: an abandoned train station in the Louisiana swamps, a Baroness Pontalba apartment in the Quarter, a Garden District mansion. Place, weather, time, sounds inspire designers who are critical to creating the images the story requires. I try to fill my plays with details from New Orleans; the heat, the rain, the light through the oaks, the phantom gallery of a plantation house at dusk so that you too can experience what it's like to live here.




The New Honeymoon Planner


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Millions of newlyweds set off on romantic honeymoons each year. But how do they decide where to go, how much to spend, and how to make it a honeymoon to remember? The New Honeymoon Planner will guide their way. Bridal expert Sharon Naylor details every step of honeymoon planning and budgeting, from research and ideas to weather, expense, and location factors.Inside, readers will discover a host of great ideas, including: -- Relaxing honeymoons -- the pina colada on the beach-- Active honeymoons -- windsurfing, mountain climbing, scuba diving-- Adventure honeymoons -- African safari, climbing the pyramids-- Food and drink honeymoons -- wine country, Provence, New Orleans-- Family honeymoons -- Walt Disney World, Las Vegas, with kidsFilled with fun quizzes and checklists, this book provides everything couples need for a once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon.




The Honeymoon Handbook


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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's first dedicated honeymoon guide is packed with advice for travel-lovers who want their honeymoon their way: no all-inclusive in sight here. Set your heart racing with real adventures, tailored to what you two love the most - whether that's wildlife-spotting on the African savannah, cruising around Havana in one of Cuba's legendary vintage American cars or diving with turtles in Bali. Planning tips will help you cover off the basics and bypass the stress, with advice on: When to go, how long to go for, and how to factor in seasons and climates How to build a multi-stop honeymoon How to pick hotels Working out a realistic budget, and sticking to it How to compromise with your other half The benefit of mini-moons, and how to plan the best one possible Getting married abroad, including logistics and legalities A host of top-rated destinations, listed by type of trip The best destinations for same sex couples The inspiration section covers 25+ world-class honeymoon trips and gives them the classic Lonely Planet treatment. Whether you're after ideas for a classic trip or for more offbeat honeymoon suggestions, we've got you covered. See ancient temples in Myanmar, eat exquisite Michelin-starred meals in Tokyo, or surf the rolling Pacific waves at Sydney's Bondi Beach. For every destination covered, discover: Essential, not-to-be-missed honeymoon experiences Practical itineraries to give you inspiration How LGBT-friendly you will find it A budget indicator Dream digs: where to stay for an unforgettable experience Practicalities for getting your trip booked No matter what gets your travel juices flowing, this book promises to set you on track for the trip of a lifetime and to set your life together off to a magical start. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -- Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.




Watchin' the Detective


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Have you ever wanted to go to one of those murder/mystery dinner theaters where the audience has to figure out whodunit? Isabella, a librarian in her early thirties, goes with her friends to a show where an actual murder takes place. She falls in love with the sexy investigating detective and gets herself mixed up with some dangerous people when she goes undercover to help him solve the crime.




Hell on Wheels: My Adventures


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This is a PG-Rated fictional story about an 18-year-old girl's adventures traveling with the men who built the transcontinental railroad and the prostitutes who came along with them. Later in the story, she meets a surveyor for the railroad who offers her a different life. Will she be able to leave behind what she has seen and experienced in the Hell on Wheels camps? Find out in this entertaining story.




Honeymoon Dive


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At 10.42 a.m. on 22 October 2003, while diving on the wreck of the SS Yongala on the Great Barrier Reef, an American tourist photographed his new wife for their honeymoon album. Instead the photo would become a vital police exhibit. On the right-hand side of the shot, Tina Watson's body lay 27 metres down on the ocean floor, one arm outstretched, reaching upwards. This is the photograph that shocked millions across Australia and the US. How could a healthy young woman have died, a mere seven minutes into her dive, when Gabe Watson, her buddy and husband of only eleven days, was a certified rescue diver? And why did he later relay sixteen different versions of what happened that day to other divers, police, friends and family? Did he cold-bloodedly shut off her air or did he panic after claiming her flailing arms dislodged his mask and regulator? When he ascended to the surface, was it to get help or to callously abandon his bride to her ultimate fate? These remain the captivating questions at the heart of this true-life thriller. Researched across two continents, Honeymoon Dive is in turns disturbing and enthralling as it painstakingly reconstructs events behind one of Australia's most darkly fascinating tragedies.




The Garden District of New Orleans


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The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West Freeman evokes the romance of this elegant neighborhood with lovely images of private homes, dazzling gardens, and public structures. Author Jim Fraiser vividly details the historical significance and architectural styles of more than a hundred structures and chronicles both the political and cultural evolution of the neighborhood. The Garden District, unlike the French Quarter, evolved under the auspices of predominantly Anglo-American architects hired by newly arriving, and newly wealthy, Americans. Beyond these wealthy homeowners, the Garden District also offers a startlingly diverse and freewheeling history teeming with African American slaves, free men and women of color, French, Italians, Germans, Jews, and Irish, all of whom helped fashion it into one of America's first suburbs and most extraordinary neighborhoods. Fraiser animates the Garden District's story with such notables as Mark Twain; Jefferson Davis; occupying Union general Benjamin Butler; flamboyant steamboat captain Thomas Leathers; crusading Reverend Theodore Clapp; Confederate generals Jubal Early and Leonidas Polk; jazzmen Joe "King" Oliver and Nate "Kid" Ory; champion pugilist John L. Sullivan; local authors Grace King, George Washington Cable, and Anne Rice; Mayor Joseph Shakespeare; architects Henry Howard, Lewis Reynolds, and Thomas Sully; cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner; and Louisiana Lottery co-founder John A. Morris. In words and photographs, Fraiser and Freeman explore the unexpected evolution of this district and reveal how war, plagues, politics, religion, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation shaped the incomparable Garden District.




Nags, Sluts, and a Deep-Breasted Soulmate from the Shining City: Thomas Wolfe's Women in The Web and the Rock


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I wrote this critical essay after I obtained my Master’s Degree in English and went to a Thomas Wolfe festival in 1991. While I was there, I had the good fortune to run into his nephew, who was the only living relative who actually knew him. I’ve always been a sucker for a good love story and was pleased to discover the best one in American Literature, in my humble opinion, in Wolfe’s long novel, The Web and The Rock. In that thinly-veiled self-portrait, Wolfe loves and captures the spirit of Aline Bernstein. In his extravagant rhetoric, he immortalizes her in his fictional character, Esther Jack. Written in the 1930s, it shows remarkable respect for an independent woman, and in this respect, Wolfe was ahead of his time. The fact that Aline won a Tony award for Best Costume Design, makes the story of her relationship with Wolfe even more fascinating. This eBook also includes photographs.