My wife and I have been on many tours similar to this in numerous cities, with only one ending up this way. New Orleans is a fascinating city that has so much history. Naturally, we decide to take a tour of the French Quarter as it is one of the most iconic location in the city and Friends of the Cabildo seemed to be a good fit.
Out tour guide, Jane, almost immediately started injecting her current and past political views into almost every element of the tour. If I wanted to hear politics discussed, I could stay in a hotel and watch pundits on cable news channels. The rhetoric went on and on and twice I told my wife we need to just walk away; we were wanting to know about the history of the area, not our guides biases.
To her credit, there were some interesting facts prevented, but it got to the point where we were just waiting for the next political slam instead of enjoying an oratory of the culture and history of the French Quarter and New Orleans. Perhaps another tour guide would have been better, but we won't go back and find out.