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You could spend a week at this terrific museum and find yourself needing to return for more—it is a splendid documentation of WW II and is masterfully presented with the best in technology, offering insights and definitive detail that illuminate the war’s captivating history.

Those who spend time in the Crescent City and feast on its food, jazz, and limitless attractions and don’t incorporate time for the World War II museum, would be like going to Commander’s Palace and ordering scallops with dehydrated citrus peel, oven dried kale, salt cured breakfast & watermelon radishes and whipped Louisan blue crab roe and then passing on the popular restaurant’s creole bread pudding souffle.

Fortunately, with frequent stops here over the years, I have dined at most all the famous restaurants. I have experienced side trips throughout the state including to Breaux Bridge, Lafayette, Avery Island, and have taken in the Cajun Grand Ole Opry at Eunice where a good time was enjoyed by all.

The only thing I haven’t done, which is regrettable, is that I never found the time to spend time fishing the bayous, swamps, and rivers of a state which bills itself as a “Sportsman’s Paradise.”

I’ve enjoyed New Orleans and “all that jazz.” I have driven across the state and have taken a French writer-friend on an extended tour of the Louisiana hinterlands and have experienced triumph and heartbreak in the Superdome.

I’m a passionate aficionado of N’awlins and will always eagerly wait for a return trip to a city which most of us can’t get enough of.