It was a pleasure to meet Xiaogang. He is both congenial and concerned, both primary qualities of a caring host. The location is literally a three minute walk to the campus of Tulane, and an easy five minute walk to the nearest streetcar route, along Carrolton. Xiaogang had me connected to wifi within five minutes of my arrival and I was able to take care of some work on-line that I needed to wrap up by the next morning. The room was clean and neat, as were the kitchen, bathroom and living rooms, which are shared when there are multiple guests staying. Morning coffee on the front porch, very nice, after flying down from nyc where it had been 30F the evening of my flight down. I will be making trips fairly regularly to NOLA so I am very glad to have found a nice, quiet, centrally-located place for future visits.

James Fox