My lady Pinky had some vacation she was looking to take and I am constantly looking to take photos of weird roadside attraction’s and world’s largest anything so we decided to go on a trip down to New Orleans. Our last road trip was both weird and wonderful so I had high hopes for the always weird Louisiana. I brought my digital camera with me but I ended up only shooting film the whole trip. I edited a few rolls down to about 20 photos but there’s some fun stuff here and absolutely no nudity which is a nice change of pace!

Most of the trip we spent in New Orleans eating amazing crawfish related foods and getting weird tattoos but we also took a day trip to Abita Springs on the north shore of the massive Lake Pontchartrain. If you haven’t driven on a 20+ mile bridge before I would recommend it.

Our destination was the Abita Mystery House home of the bassigator, dogigator and several other alligator related nightmares. It was the highlight of the trip and that is saying something considering I would rather eat etouffee than do just about anything. If you are ever near Abita Springs you NEED to go. Pinky ended up getting a Darrel the Dogigator tattoo and I got the Mystery House’s question mark logo tattooed to my shin. It was a memorable trip.

Thanks to my buddy Downtown Terry Brown and Downtown Tattoos for the hook up!

Oh and we also went to the world’s largest safety pin and the supposed world’s largest Ronald Reagan tattoo but honestly Ronnie wasn’t that big. I feel like America’s first president to star in a movie with a chimp deserves a bigger statue.

Click here to see the 35mm photos from our trip to New Orleans and the Abita Mystery House!

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