Any hotelier will tell you that this is the worst weekend of the year for them. Hotel rooms are systematically destroyed, excessive violence,etc. Likewise restaurant owners and wait staff hate this weekend. Walkoffs, no tips, behaviour about as you’d expect.
Yup. Mrs. Abb & I have been going to NO the past several years for the restaurants and museums. We go in the spring, after Mardi Gras, but before the temps get oppressive. Thanksgiving week would be good weather, but the Bayou Classic week has been like this for years.
Grambling is about a dozen miles down Interstate 20 from where I live in Ruston, LA. Nothing but a sinkhole into which taxpayer money is poured.