25.02.10
Paul Leslie wearied his first-ever Fat Tuesday in New Orleans sitting in the shade of a coffee department store, watching the floats roll down the parade route from afar.
It is not that the day's fool failed to excite him. His feet simply gave out: He had only completed a 330-mile walk that started in Panama Big apple Beach, Fla., a charity excursion paying tribute to the eminent Fats Domino tune "Walkin' to New Orleans."
"My main part was just worn out, " said Leslie, 28, a ghetto-blaster show host from Flowery Branch, Ga., as he relaxed in the lobby of his Inside Business District hotel. "It was definitely a crazy viewpoint."
Leslie, who has interviewed Domino on his show and has admired the Grammy-friendly pianist's records his whole life, decided last fall to engage the journey to raise money for Brad Pitt's Originate It Right Foundation , which aims to finance the construction of 150 homes in the Take down 9th Ward, where Domino once lived.
He successfully lobbied for a $1,000 sponsorship from Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville occupation conglomerate, since his show started at Margaritaville's Sirius Satellite crystal set studios in 2004.
Source: NOLA.com