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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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Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast, Feb. 2022 and Feb. 14-18, 2024
Two years ago in February of 2022 my friend Lyman and I departed on what was supposed to be a multi-day bicycle tour from New Orleans to the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast. In the afternoon of our first day Lyman had an “accident” near Slidell LA. He was lucky he wasn’t killed. We had…
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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. …
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