The French Quarter....

Traveling from New York to Gulfport, everyone cautioned me about Louisiana...... "You're going to New Orleans?," they'd say, "It's so dangerous there right now!" - Point is, all these requests of caution, eventually got to me.... It got to the point where I didn't want to venture out........... because I convinced that the city would kill me.

Haha... until, I sat in the condo for two days
Cleaned the entire apartment...
and decided life is for living....

Found my way to the French Quarter pretty easily. Everyone was wearing Disney hats, and multicolored fanny packs (not so scary afterall, huh?)

So I walked around, bought a few postcards and things to send home to Mom (half naked girls wearing nothing but beads! She is going to love the postcards that I chose) I've been trying not to spend too money. Modeling has been very slow from Tallahassee to Gulfport. I am very close to running out of money this week.

I did decide to treat myself though. Just this once. I chose a place called Mr B's.

There was a lady at the bar. And we got to talking and she tells me that she is a 'messenger'.... She says that the universe brought us together. "We have been pulled by the same force. Jessica, you are on a journey."... She starts telling me about all these things that I am going to see. Places that I need to go. She said that I will find my spiritual leader in Zion and that I am a Rainbow Warrior. She wrote everything down on a dozen little napkins, covered in the Whiskey she was drinking.....I walked out of Mr. B's with a purse jam packed with napkins predicting my future. She kept stressing that I am supposed to record all the positive things that I experience in my life, take all that information that I get from it and give it back to the world so that they can also bathe in positivity.... She told me to write a book, "Your book could change the world".... I, honestly, cannot see how my traveling will change the world. A LOT of people travel. But she said she was a messenger and she bought me dinner that night and it was very kind of her. So I am going to keep all her little napkins. Perhaps they will predict the future.

Bourbon street was madness. Being a lone traveler, I had to become my own babysitter. I had two drinks and watched a marching band play and headed home. When I got back to the condo, I jumped in the pool with all my clothes on (sober, of course, it's just really hot down here right now).