Category: Louisiana trips
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Touring the Ninth Ward by Schwinn Typhoon, with Tootie, December 2, 2018
This is a story of a bicycle (Schwinn Typhoon) and a neighborhood (New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.). I have been taking longer distance bike rides for over fifty years, starting when I was about twelve years old. These first trips were on the bicycle I then owned, a Schwinn Typhoon. My friends and I rode…
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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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