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Best places to eat/explore in TX< MS< LA<NM<AZ<AK<OK<TN
This summer I'm going on massive road trip in the south. I want to know the best places to eat and explore in each area. I will list the cities below, we are willing to go a little out the way but we have hotels everywhere listed. Off the beaten track, local style travel preferred.
Phoenix, AZ
San Antonio, TX
Vicksburg, MS
New Orleans, LA
Santa Fe, NM
White Sands National Monument, NM
Memphis, TN
Little Rock, AK
Sayre, OK
Grand Canyon/Flagstaff AZ
Remember we'll be driving everywhere in between.
Thanks is advance!
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Permalink Reply by Martin S on -
I don't have any suggestions, but that sounds like an awesome trip. Are you traveling by yourself? How long you expecting to go for?
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Permalink Reply by Rachel Finlayson on -
I'm traveling with one of my best friends. We've been friends since kindergarten. We have planned it out to last two weeks. The bigger cities will get 2 days and the smaller ones only one. I would like to say I'm a free enough spirit to just take a tent and see where the road takes me but this time we've got set hotel rooms and a pretty set route.
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Permalink Reply by M on -
When you're in New Orleans, make sure you hit up the French Quarter... they have the best food. You MUST be sure to stop for Beignets -small, triangle shaped "doughnut" type pastries with powdered sugar- at the Cafe du Monde. You can sit in the cafe and eat them (they have live jazz musicians playing everyday) or you can drop by the back window and pick up 3 for $5 (at least, that's how much they cost when I was there, Pre-Katrina). You can chow down while shopping the flea-market or head down to the wharf and watch the Mississippi River float on by.
Try the po'boys at either Cafe du Monde or any other open-air cafe in the vicinity as well. I'd have to say that New Orleans makes some of the best Southern/Cajun/soul food on the planet. :)
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Permalink Reply by Rachel Finlayson on
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Oh my GOD I LOVE the Beignets at Cafe du Monde- New Orleans is the one place on the list I've been. I did not however have a po boy when I was there... Everything else I ate was totally fantastic.
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Permalink Reply by magnolia on -
NOLA. oh, my lord, that place is what made law school in louisiana survivable. some suggestions:
monsoons, cheeseburgers and baked potatoes at port of call
brunch on saturday or sunday morning at dante's kitchen in the riverbend
(relatively) quiet drinks at the royal street oyster bar in the quarter
po'boys at parkway bakery in mid-city
i could go on forever. it's next to impossible to go wrong. NOLA is a magic, magic place. it gets in your soul and you're changed. seriously.
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Permalink Reply by Linda on -
There are two food places in San Antonio both on Man v. Food
but the pizza place you'll need at least... 8-10 people.
Here are my reviews :)
Lulu's - http://girleatsworld.curious-notions.net/2010/02/lulus-cafe-and-bak...
Big Lou's - http://girleatsworld.curious-notions.net/2010/02/big-lous-pizza/
Also in San Antonio - the Alamo, SeaWorld, and Fiesta, Texas
I went to Vicksburg in 8th grade for a field trip. Remember plantation homes and battlefields..
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on -
Hm - San Antonio I highly recommend going to the riverwalk (if you have money to spend, there is this place called Boudreaux that is AMAZING. its right on the water). San Marcos isnt far - 45 minutes away or so, there is a place called The Tap Room that has the most amazing burgers in the state. Austin, of course, is amazing as well. I highly recommend going to a place called Mozarts (its a coffee shop), its right off lake austin.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Jarrett on -
I just heard about this place in Austin, TX but I have personally never been there. It's called "Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon". People go there to play Chicken Shit Bingo. I've never heard of it but after reading the Texas Monthly article on "Things you have to do in Texas", I now know all about it! There's just a piece of plywood, gridded with boxes numbered 1-54, sprinkled with feed and hand-torn bread, and enclosed with chicken wire. For $2, you buy a number and hope that the "caller", an auburn-feathered hen named Sissy, eats enough of that feed to...relieve herself on your square. If she does, you win the pot of money. Sounds kinda fun!! And somewhat gross at the same time :)
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