Category: Louisiana trips
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A lifetime of biking to haircuts and my new perfect barber shop; September 23, 2023
Is it just me or does anyone else feel uncomfortable in a barber chair, not knowing what to talk about? I hate having to make small talk. I do not recall ever driving a car somewhere to get my hair cut. I have always gone by bicycle. Even as a kid in Virginia Beach I…
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Searching for the end of the earth, East Bank edition,March 5 and 13, 2023
Louisiana geography is complicated. Divided by the Mississippi River, southern Louisiana has an East Bank and a West Bank, even though with a curving river the East Bank is not always to the east. In the swampy landscape south of New Orleans, on the East Bank there are roads that head out into the marshes,…
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A hike across New Orleans, March 27, 2022
I do love hiking in the great outdoors (mountains! forests! wildlife!) but too little is said about urban hiking. I indeed have been bicycling around New Orleans but you see so much more when you walk. This past Sunday I did an almost day-long ten mile stroll through a big part of New Orleans, starting…
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Cycling to coffee houses in New Orleans, Nov. 26 – Dec. 5, 2021
Until Seattle (and Starbucks) showed superior marketing, New Orleans was the coffee capital of America. I visited New Orleans for the first time while an undergraduate. On that 1976 trip I had Breakfast At Brennan’s as my first real gourmet restaurant meal. I can still remember the intensity of the coffee that accompanied the bananas…
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