No pictures today, just a progress report. We're in Pecos, Texas. The speed limits out here in west Texas are high.  The limit on I-10 west of San Antonio is 80 mph, and on a secondary road, US 285 that we used to get us to Pecos, the speed limit was 75. That speed messed with the mileage of my Prius, as does the ethanol that they lace the gasoline with out here in the west. My mileage on my last tank was a mere 35.9 mpg. But we made good time. Tomorrow, we're going to Carlsbad Caverns, that is if the weather be good.

This evening, we continued our musical experience during this road trip by attending a fully acoustic performance of Celtic music, actually Irish music, at BD Riley's Irish Pub. The top picture is Heather Gilmer. She's the daughter of one of Carolyn's friends from college. Heather is a civil engineer with the Texas Department of Transportation in Austin by day. By night, she's a Celtic fiddler (http://www.fiddlista.com/). My brother and I expressed interest in hearing her play if she had a gig. So she kindly invited four of her fellow Celtic musicians to join her at BD Riley's in order to entertain us, the other customers, and themselves. This was essentially a jam session that they held at the pub. They were quite good.

No pictures today. We visited a lady who was literally the girl next door when we were teenagers. She found us via the Internet and has been trading emails with me and with my brother for a few months. She lives in the Houston, TX area with her husband. We met him, one of her adult children who was visiting, her two dogs, and her father who was also visiting. We already knew her father since he was also our next door neighbor when we were teenagers.

After leaving New Orleans, we took a tour at the Oak Alley Plantation. It's the most photographed plantation in the world so, naturally, I felt the need to photograph it, too.

Then we went to New Orleans. We walked around Bourbon St.

We visited Warigia Bowman (top picture), a new Assistant Professor at Ole Miss. She invited us to be judges at her class on public policy where the students were having a debate on the appropriate way to address the economy. The center picture shows some of the students. Then she took us on a tour of the campus. The lower picture is the statue of James Meredith, the first African American who enrolled as a student at Ole Miss in 1962.

We stayed in Nashville this evening. Dinner was at Jack's on Broadway. We listened to some honky-tonk music after dinner. The guy in the top picture is my brother, Kenny.