Tag: history
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Clinton Street, New Orleans LA, March 14 2026
I bicycle around New Orleans constantly. Except for streets First through Ninth in Uptown (which MUST be spelled out, never writing them like “2nd.”) there is mostly no system for the street names in New Orleans, many of which are exotic sounding, like LaFaye Street or Soraparu Street. An AI search says there about twelve…
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Almost Under the Bridge, reporting February 28, 2026
Our condo is in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District. Fifteen minute’s walk towards downtown is an area I will call “Almost Under The Bridge” which I have been taking photos of for more than a year, trying to capture the intensity of walking or cycling through streets where an elevated highway plows through a historic…
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Cycling to Lyman and Gillian’s wedding; January 6, 2026
My readers may know Lyman from his years of accompanying me on bike trips. Living in Austin TX for thirty years he was originally from New Orleans where he maintains family connections. His partner Gillian whom he met in Austin coincidentally grew up in Durham NC and we have found we have mutual acquaintances. Gillian…
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Pointe aux Chenes; March 23, 2025
I was looking for my next adventure. A peaceful bike ride in south Louisiana can be a secondary road that follows a bayou near to where the pavement ends in the marshes. Pointe aux Chenes, twenty-three miles south of Houma LA and seventy-five miles south of New Orleans looked to be such a place. Many…
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