Tag: mississippi-river
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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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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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