Category: Louisiana trips
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Bicycling Fat Tuesday with Tootie and Kathryn, Feb. 13, 2018
Mardi Gras translated from French means Fat Tuesday. In New Orleans it is both a season and a day. The celebration is a ramp-up; parades and parties start shortly after New Years Day and continues for over a month. Activity increases in intensity until the culmination on the Tuesday before Lent. Mardi Gras Day, that…
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New Orleans East, Feb. 8, 2018
I wanted to see what would happen if I just pointed the bicycle east from Uptown New Orleans and started pedaling. I had heard of an abandoned amusement park on the eastern fringes of New Orleans, I picked that as a destination. It was a beautiful day. I left our guest apartment Uptown and bicycled…
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The West Bank, Sunday February 19, 2017
Back in the day we used to mock the area across the Mississippi River from New Orleans by wryly calling it The Best Bank. Over The River on The West Bank usually meant working class suburbia, shipyards, and industrial areas. Even though Tootie and I lived in New Orleans for nearly seven years in the…
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The houses of Broadmoor, New Orleans, Feb. 17, 2016
I was looping around New Orleans by bicycle last week. Tootie and I were staying there for a few days. Broadmoor is an area of New Orleans developed in the early part of the 20th century, after a swampy area was drained. For at least the first twenty years of the neighborhood houses built high…
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