Category: Louisiana trips
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Bayou Country; March 29-30, 2024
Born on the Bayou is a magnificent song from 1969 on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album Bayou Country. It is the flip side of the big selling 45 single Proud Mary. The only problem, which is maybe not a problem, is that having your facts straight is not always necessary to create great art. Creedence…
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Bicycle tour of suburban New Orleans East; March 13, 2024
New Orleans is a lovely old city and I love looking at old houses. The suburb of New Orleans East is not particularly old and not particularly attractive. I bicycled out there anyway. This is the daylong forty mile bike ride I ultimately took. New Orleans East is a suburban area developed in the 1960’s…
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Noodling around Morgan City and Berwick LA; January 19, 2024
My friend Chris had advised me that biking around Patterson LA might be somehow exotic. Patterson is on US-90, eighty-something miles southwest of New Orleans; ten miles past Morgan City LA. As fate would have it, I drove off towards Patterson but got sidetracked. Cycling around Berwick and Morgan City was just too enticing. I never made it…
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Two trips to Gretna LA and beyond, only one by bicycle; Dec. 30, 2023 and Jan. 2, 2024
The entire time I have lived in New Orleans, both back in the 1980’s and also recently, I had snobbily dismissed almost everything that lay “across the river” despite the fact hundreds of thousands live Over There. The Mississippi River in New Orleans is wide and threateningly deep with a strong current. It seems the wild beast. …
urban bicycle journeys 