Meet the Krewe
In 2020 four co-workers who lost our jobs (COVID strikes again) decided we weren’t done yet. We weren’t done working as a team and we weren’t done showing visitors the city we love. So we said “Let’s keep going, but let’s do it better!”. We shook off the corporate dust, so that our guests will get a true New Orleans experience, and we built this thing from the cracked pavement up.
While our backgrounds are wildly different, we share the same goal: showing our city the best way we can to the people who want to see it. We have decades of experience between us. We love this city. We are obsessed with its history. We are entwined with its music, art, food, and culture. We want you to experience everything New Orleans has to offer.
How are we different? When you tour with Paved Paradise, you are riding with an owner of the company; someone who will make sure you walk away with great memories and stories to share. We love what we do and you’ll love coming along for the ride.
Being owner-operated means we can offer you experiences beyond our standard tours (which are fantastic). We can give you a more tailored experience, and we are all about it. We can offer you customized tours, made-to-order full days, or carefully curated complete weekends, all geared to what you want. There isn’t anything we can’t create for you. Just ask.
Brian
-“A no nonsense professional.”
Since the time I was 18 I’ve lived in 34 different places. I thought I’d live the free life of a rover until I met New Orleans. As soon as I was in her humid embrace, I knew I’d never leave.
Corinna
-“You can take the girl out of The Valley, but you can’t take The Valley out of the girl.”
Swampy sultry nights, shrieking cicadas, a saxophone wailing in the distance, a cold drink, a sweet treat, “how ya doin’” from a stranger who could be a friend, all of these things have settled deep in my heart. New Orleans is the obvious choice.
Tonya
-“What/who are you looking for? I’m on Royal.”
I moved here in 2008. Immediately I knew I was home. New Orleans is like that. You fall in or you don’t. I was shopping for a toilet and the Fringe Parade went by. That was it. I spent the next few years digging in the dirt that is the history of this city and couldn’t shut up about it. So I became a tour guide and I learn more every day. My background is construction so the way houses were built here in the early days was of interest. I can go on about renovation stories and strange construction methods. The dirt just got in me.
Justin
-“We gonna make it, y’all.”
I was born in New Orleans, and even though I’ve traveled far and wide in this big ol’ world, no place else has ever truly felt like home. It’s that way for a lot of people. This city embodies so many things at once: it’s down-home familiar even while it’s forever changing. It’s deeply-rooted but cosmopolitan. It’s disarmingly humble yet irrepressibly unique. Just the fact that we’re here is something to celebrate.