This is a short post that I’m typing with one hand while packing my suitcase with the other. Before coming to New Orleans for the IABC International Conference, I decided not to spend a lot of time blogging. I wanted to aborb as much of the environment and sessions as possible.

I’ll be adding posts here within the next couple of days. The “Quick ‘n Dirty New Orleans” answer to whether my experience has been positive is: Most definitely!

I can’t compare today’s New Orleans with the place some of you experienced pre-Katrina. This was my first visit. Some things are different; how couldn’t things have changed in the aftermath of that huge of a catastophe? But the things that matter to most of us outsiders: The accommodations, the entertainment, the “touristy things to do,” and–most importantly–the people–did not, and will not, disappoint.

More to come. I hope that also is what we can tell the New Orleans office of tourism.