Anyone near New Orleans?

[mantis]

I'm going to be in the Big Easy from Sept. 29th - Oct. 4th. If anyone is in the area and wants some free food/drinks let me know... The annual Society of Exploration Geophysicists is in town, so I'll be there. There is a ton of money flying around the oil industry these days, so there are numerous parties/activities going on, plus I have a pretty healty expense account, so if you want to grab dinner it's on me.

My company has chartered a couple restored train cars that we will be traveling from Houston -> N.O. in, and then on Mon & Tues we are having parties on the train cars (free food & open bar).

Soooo, if anyone is in town, and wants a little kick back from the outrageous gas prices let me know.

e-mail me: mfrismanis@seismiccity.com

[mantis]

And I'm out the door. See y'all in a week.

[serenityinbamboo]

Hope you have FUN!

[Markj]

And, hopefully it's rains loads whilst you're away

[mantis]

Well I'm back. I have a ton of pics, but they all need to be resized.

The trip was unbelievable... 5 star service. The two train cars that we were on were from 1955, and were restored 3 years ago at a cost of ~$4million each There were 4 of us travelling, and we had 3 on board staff (chef and 2 stewards). It was an absolutely amazing trip that I will not soon forget.

Here are a couple teaser pics. I'll make a photo album in the next couple of days with more pics.

[serenityinbamboo]

The pictures of the train looks nice. The view from the third picture was phenominal! About how high up where you? Did you see any bamboo

[mantis]

No bamboo.

The bridge was to get over the Mississippi river. I have no idea how high we were, but I definitely wouldn't want to jump off. That picture is when we were about halfway down too... I guess there are some pretty large ships that come into the New Orleans port.

[Iowaboo]

I thought you would have seen alot of bamboo pipelines.