On the Natchez riverboat

I've always wanted to take a cruise aboard a real steam powered
paddlewheeler, and now I've had the chance. It is not as romantic or
exciting as one may hope. Its a smooth rideand the air is clean and
cool. The banks of the river here are industrial and ugly. A dew
taterred palnation houses dot the landscape, but they are shadows of
their former glory here. I'd lile to contine down to the gulf, or
upriver, but this is only a 2 hour cruise. I could easily see myself
using this form of transportation 100 years ago.

We leave New Orleans today and head to Gulf Wars. God I'm going to miss
this city.