One of the things I love about New Orleans: travel east while driving on North Claiborne. It's why most natives don't use north, south, east, or west when describing directions. We use river side, lake side, uptown and downtown, generally.

I'll never forget the time that a friend moved to N.O. from Boston and after being here for about a year, he started to get the hang of directions. We were going to meet to watch a carnival parade. I told him to meet me on the river side of the neutral ground of the Uptown, lake side corner of St. Charles and Felicity. We both had a great laugh when he showed up exactly there.