Category: Louisiana trips
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One morning cycling through New Orleans, October 27, 2021
Tootie and I drove down to our New Orleans second home on about October first and we stayed the whole month. It has been wonderful walking around every morning in our Lower Garden District neighborhood, all these amazing buildings within a hundred yards of our front door. To me it is paradise. We rarely used…
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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…
urban bicycle journeys 