Category: Louisiana trips
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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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New Orleans downriver to Braithwaite LA, Dec. 17, 2016
Tootie and I were staying in uptown New Orleans over a long weekend. I took the opportunity to take a day bike ride downriver. While I almost never play golf, first in about 1987 and as recently as about 2003 I had played golf at one of the more unusual municipal golf courses in…
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