Senior Sojourns: Ease Your Way to the Big Easy for Mardi Gras |
If you want to experience the fun and excitement of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, you’d better be making plans to be there now. The event this year blasts off on Fat Tuesday, February 24, and promises to be the very best in the two-century history of masks, music and mayhem of the always wild event.
New Orleans, created in 1718 by French settlers, is famed for its rich Creole culture, the birthplace of pure jazz, eclectic architecture, celebrations and some of the best Southern cooking in the land. As it is just about every night, Mardi Gras in the French Quarter will be as free and wild as revelers will find anywhere, seniors certainly included. |