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[SUGGEST ON] Baton Rouge for 1.5 months!
Spacemilk
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Hello again, H/A! As stated in the "find me a laptop quick" thread, my boss let me know today that I'll be spending the next 1.5 months living in a hotel in Baton Rouge, starting this Sunday evening.
The problem is, I've never been to Baton Rouge and while I have friends who are originally from there, I don't know anyone who currently lives there so I'm SOL for people to hang out with. My friends who lived there think it's the lamest town ever and keep telling me to just go to NOLA for stuff to do. (which I will do, but I want to explore BR and the surrounding areas as well!)
Everything is paid for by work, so I have a rental car and a hotel already and any meals I eat are covered. (I am allowed to eat at really nice places too!) If I decide to travel, my gas and everything is covered, but if I stay overnight I have to pay for that hotel as it's technically personal travel. (for some reason gas for personal travel is covered, don't know why but I'm ok with that)
I'll be working mostly days but could work some nights too, so I'll have opportunities to sightsee and travel in the day and the evening so anything is possible.
Basically any suggestions for things to do, see, or eat within a 2-3 hour radius would be much appreciated! NOLA included! Please keep in mind I am a skinny wimpy girl so please don't send me to any overly sketchy places.
The problem is, I've never been to Baton Rouge and while I have friends who are originally from there, I don't know anyone who currently lives there so I'm SOL for people to hang out with. My friends who lived there think it's the lamest town ever and keep telling me to just go to NOLA for stuff to do. (which I will do, but I want to explore BR and the surrounding areas as well!)
Everything is paid for by work, so I have a rental car and a hotel already and any meals I eat are covered. (I am allowed to eat at really nice places too!) If I decide to travel, my gas and everything is covered, but if I stay overnight I have to pay for that hotel as it's technically personal travel. (for some reason gas for personal travel is covered, don't know why but I'm ok with that)
I'll be working mostly days but could work some nights too, so I'll have opportunities to sightsee and travel in the day and the evening so anything is possible.
Basically any suggestions for things to do, see, or eat within a 2-3 hour radius would be much appreciated! NOLA included! Please keep in mind I am a skinny wimpy girl so please don't send me to any overly sketchy places.
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It's not just jazz, it's all types of music. It's awesome.
Seriously, Jazz Fest is really fun. For me, it's just an excuse to eat a ton of great New Orleans cuisine. There's basically a competition as to who can cram crawfish into the most menu items (crawfish cakes, crawfish bread, etc).
A ton of my friends/family attend(ed) LSU, so I'll ask if anything's going on in BR, since I'm guessing most of the replies in this thread will be NOLA related.
Anyway, if you're gonna spend a day in NOLA, eat breakfast Cafe du Monde, as suggested by Tartech. Then go up to the Gumbo Shop for lunch. Order gumbo. Order gator sausage. I'm not kidding on the gator sausage. It's fantastic.
If you want to take a drive (and it's a drive), go to Lafayette and go to Don's Specialty Meats. They have FANTASTIC boudin and pretty good chicharonnes (cracklins). It's just on the other side of Lafayette from Baton Rouge. If you're driving to BR from H-town, stop there on the way back and buy boudin. For some reason, I bet your boss is making ya fly.
If you need something in and around the Red Stick, 10Best has some restaraunt listings. Personally, I like Tony's and Boutin's. I've heard some good things about Tsunami at the Shaw Center, but I haven't been out there. Schlittz and Giggles is a good pizza bar.
I have actually been to NOLA for Mardi Gras a couple years in a row, and I'm a Cafe du Monde fan - I will almost certainly stop by again. And I have tried Gumbo Shop and I loooooove it! So good. Man I'm gonna get fat on this trip.
John Matrix, I actually live in Houston so Texas and its BBQ is pretty familiar to me.
Eggplant Wizard, I just found out some of my native-BR friends are coming up next weekend for JazzFest! So I think I'm going to meet up with them and check it out. It sounds awesome!!!
http://blackpotfestival.com/website/about.html
It's about an hour away in Lafayette, and is pretty much the most epic blackpot cookoff, accordion contest, and all-night dancing that you'll find anywhere. Happens the last weekend of October.
Unless you hate food and music, go.