Category: Louisiana trips
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Not bicycling to Susan Cowswill, November 22, 2024
In my previous post I had bemoaned over-enthusiasm towards the most famous musical talents while not appreciating the lesser known. Susan Cowsill? Taylor Swift she is not. The youngest member of the 1960’s family band The Cowsills, she has been a performer for nearly sixty years. She has played with her five older brothers, alone,…
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Taylor Swift by bicycle; October 25-27, 2024
Tootie’s sister Kathryn has a friend Suzanne. They met in college over forty years ago and remain close, even though the whole time Kathryn has lived in Winston-Salem NC, five hour’s drive from Suzanne in Virginia Beach VA. Very coincidentally Suzanne, growing up in Virginia Beach, had been friends with MY sister Jane, but only…
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Thirty miles north of Baton Rouge: St. Francisville and New Roads LA; April 22-24, 2024
I planned a three day trip with my friend Lyman. “We can’t bicycle up there, it won’t be safe,” I mused. I had read an online bicycle post about somewhere else where rural locals were “rolling coal” on cyclists, adolescents in pickup trucks pulling up alongside and spew diesel smoke and noise, trying to scare…
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Three hours in Baton Rouge; April 7, 2024
How much of Baton Rouge LA could I see in three hours by bicycle? Despite all the years I have on and off spent in New Orleans and south Louisiana I had never been to the city Baton Rouge. Never! I have driven through Baton Rouge on I-10 dozens of times but I had never…
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