Category: Louisiana trips
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The Bayou: Thibodaux and Houma LA, 1/28-29, 2012
The bayou means all sorts of things, especially in popular music. CCR did “Born on the Bayou”, although I doubt they had ever been to an actual bayou. Even in the city of New Orleans a bayou can mean several things. Many times “the Bayou” refers to the entire rural watery region south and west of…
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Ninety minutes in New Orleans Treme and Mid-City 7/10/11
In almost any American city, one learns very quickly that there are places you do not go. There are streets you do not cross, neighborhoods you do not enter. When we lived in New Orleans in the eighties, we knew that when in the French Quarter, you did not cross Rampart Street. That was a…
urban bicycle journeys 