NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The paddlewheeler on which they had planned to take a Mississippi River excursion was being used to house Hurricane Katrina relief workers. But Phoenix residents Barbara Levy and Skip Hanson still had French Quarter antique stores and restaurants to enjoy.
"New Orleans will get going when tourism gets going. It's got to start somewhere. Why not us?'' Levy said last week.
Four months after the storm, tourists are trickling back to New Orleans, a city that has always depended on the kindness of strangers.
"They're coming from as far away as Germany, as far away as Paris, as far away as who-knows-where,'' Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday at a ceremony to mark the start of Carnival season, which culminates in Mardi Gras, the city's biggest moneymaker. [Read more - Gaurdian]
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