This week’s Instagram theme is transportation: planes, trains, and automobiles in and around the Big Easy.
Mostly automobiles – 60s vintage in particular – because I happen to like them, and there seems to be an inordinate number of them parked around the city. Could it be due to a lack of garage space in the older neighborhoods?
The plane and train offerings are a bit thin, so I hope you’ll bear with me. Better yet, send in some of your own, to photos@nolavie.com. We’d love to see ’em.
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Glen Abbott is a New Orleans-based travel writer and photographer.
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