Category: Louisiana trips
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Meandering through the New Orleans suburbs, March 1- 4, 2021
For my regular readers I have a couple of news items: Many of my blog posts feature the white 2005 Toyota Prius that I inherited from my late mother Eleanor. Thankfully just AFTER I recently finished driving the Prius 900 miles each way from North Carolina to New Orleans and back: the main battery failed.…
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St. Bernard Parish: the last ride on my 1974 Lambert; February 23, 2020
This week I took a daylong bicycle ride with Lyman to the bayou country east of New Orleans. I did not realize it would be my last ride on a bicycle I have owned since 1974, 46 years ago. This is what the bicycle looked like during this February 2020 ride from New Orleans. Background:…
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Right outside of Delacroix, LA; Feb. 24, 2019
Tootie and I have been staying more and more frequently at our friend Kirk’s place in New Orleans. It is relaxing just to hang out there. This time we stayed in the upstairs unit. It looks out over the street. Kirk allows us to store bicycles in the crawl space under her…
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Touring the Ninth Ward by Schwinn Typhoon, with Tootie, December 2, 2018
This is a story of a bicycle (Schwinn Typhoon) and a neighborhood (New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.). I have been taking longer distance bike rides for over fifty years, starting when I was about twelve years old. These first trips were on the bicycle I then owned, a Schwinn Typhoon. My friends and I rode…
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