Category: Louisiana trips
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Biking to a piece of the second day of Jazz Fest; April 24, 2026
On a Friday morning I left our Lower Garden District New Orleans condo around 9:30 AM to bicycle my usual seventeen mile loop around City Park. Afterward at about 11:00 AM I cycled directly to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for which Tootie and I had multi-day tickets. The previous day we had…
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Amtrak to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, April 9, 2026
I have always been fascinated by railroads. Back in the seventh and eighth grade, rather than studying (I was a terrible student) or even poring over something like baseball statistics I obsessively read train schedules. My dad supportively found me an old copy of the two inch thick Official Railway Guide which listed all the…
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St. Gabriel LA to LSU Baton Rouge, along the river; March 19, 2026
The car drive was just over an hour the sixty miles mostly on I-10 from our condo in New Orleans up to St. Gabriel LA. The last ten miles were in heavy traffic on a two lane road heading through tanker truck yards and industrial back-door facilities that access the chemical plants and refineries lining…
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Clinton Street, New Orleans LA, March 14 2026
I bicycle around New Orleans constantly. Except for streets First through Ninth in Uptown (which MUST be spelled out, never writing them like “2nd.”) there is mostly no system for the street names in New Orleans, many of which are exotic sounding, like LaFaye Street or Soraparu Street. An AI search says there about twelve…
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