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Thirty miles north of Baton Rouge: St. Francisville and New Roads LA; April 22-24, 2024
I planned a three day trip with my friend Lyman. “We can’t bicycle up there, it won’t be safe,” I mused. I had read an online bicycle post about somewhere else where rural locals were “rolling coal” on cyclists, adolescents in pickup trucks pulling up alongside and spew diesel smoke and noise, trying to scare…
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Three hours in Baton Rouge; April 7, 2024
How much of Baton Rouge LA could I see in three hours by bicycle? Despite all the years I have on and off spent in New Orleans and south Louisiana I had never been to the city Baton Rouge. Never! I have driven through Baton Rouge on I-10 dozens of times but I had never…
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Bayou Country; March 29-30, 2024
Born on the Bayou is a magnificent song from 1969 on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album Bayou Country. It is the flip side of the big selling 45 single Proud Mary. The only problem, which is maybe not a problem, is that having your facts straight is not always necessary to create great art. Creedence…
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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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