We have spent the last couple of days exploring the towns along the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain including Covington and Abita Springs; there’s nothing too sensational about the area, there are just a number of small towns all running into each other. We wanted to stop in Abita Springs since we’ve driven through it everyday this week to get to some place else and we wanted to see what was here. The streets in and out of the town have some nice well kept houses along them but as it turns out the town itself is just what we’ve seen on our drive through. There is a nice park here that is ringed by some restaurants, and even a pub; the pub makes sense since there’s a brewery just down the road that makes Abita Springs beer.




This afternoon we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. When we walked in there was no one else in there, never a good sign, but as it turned out it was some of the nicest mexican food we’ve had. The owner was from Acapulco and had just recently opened the restaurant and he went out of his was to prepare our lunch, what with us being veggies and all. He made us vegetarian empanadas and some of the nicest pico de gallo I’ve ever tasted. He even gave us sangria, on the house; I had to lie down when we got home!




Mike: The mexican food has been the highlight of the New Orleans venture so far!