Leah Muse-Orlinoff | lmuseorlinoff@ucsd.edu | 9 posts
When you get to New Orleans, turn left. Otherwise, you’ll wind up in Florida. And while there’s certainly nothing wrong with Florida, it wasn’t on this trip’s itinerary. It was time to start heading north and east, keeping our eyes on the prize of the mid-atlantic and northeast. We left the city of New Orleans [...]
June 17, 2009
You know what? New Orleans is great. This, obviously, is not news to anyone with ears and a minimum of knowledge about the US, but there it is. It’s a great city. I had never been, so I can’t compare the after to the before; all I know is that I liked NOLA very, very [...]
June 17, 2009
The chile relleno was, sadly, pedestrian, and notable only for its astonishing amount of cheese. The restaurant itself was very spacious; the entry hall was as big as some of the other restaurants we’d been in over the course of the preceeding week. The eating area was likewise quite large; oddly, however, there was music playing [...]
June 15, 2009
Crissy, we did it! We made it to San Antonio, and ate at Cascabels! I have been hearing about this place for two damn years, so you’d better believe I was going to go try their food. If I had come to San Antonio and NOT gone to Cascabels or Blanco Cafe, I think I [...]
June 15, 2009
I’m kind of behind in my postings (we’re supposed to be switching writing responsibilities every other restaurant) but damn, driving makes me tired. Especially since we were driving through so much desert… I had pocas ganas at the end of the day to sit and stare at the computer. And we have seen and eaten [...]
June 10, 2009
do you know what a steer is? and how it relates to a cow? and/or a bull? these are the kinds of questions — along with what is the worst natural disaster to be caught in — with which we have been entertaining ourselves on the interminable drives through the desert. That, and repeated encounters with [...]
June 8, 2009
Today we were in Tucson for the first part of the day. We spent the morning working and went up to the top of Sentinel Peak (of course we didn’t have a camera, that would be way too easy), and then had lunch at Barrio. It’s an absolutely lovely restaurant in downtown Tucson; the lunch crowd [...]
June 8, 2009
Mile 400 We drove into Vegas at sunset on Friday night, expecting madness. But since I think that maps are for weenies, we didn’t actually look for real directions to the Sahara, where we were staying. We just kind of aimed for the neon. So we took a lovely tour of the backside of several of [...]
June 18, 2009