Tag: travel

• 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…

  Paco Marshall

  February 2, 2024

  Louisiana trips

  bicycling, biking, cycling, mississippi-river, travel

• 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. …

  Paco Marshall

  January 12, 2024

  Louisiana trips

  cycling, food, louisiana, new-orleans, travel