Category: Bike Tour
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New Orleans, LA
Day 5 New Orleans parade night #2! This trio of krewes was parading on their originally-scheduled night, and I joined Rett and Josh (who had gone out for a sushi dinner) where they had met Brielle again at her saved-spot on St. Charles Avenue. First up was Knights of Babylon, who pitch themselves as very…
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New Orleans, LA
Day 4 Today, the French Quarter! We likely walked something close to 10 miles on our daylong loop to Frenchmen Street and back. Since we started out by taking advantage of New Orleans’s liberal open-container law, filled with spirits matching the name of the city’s most-famous street, there’s a period in the middle where Rett’s…
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New Orleans, LA
Day 2 Rett’s original dream was to stay in the French Quarter, but even if price was no object, the few places available felt like they’d be bait-and-switches. So we ended up in the Garden District (technically Irish Channel), on the opposite side of the Central Business District (but still less than three miles from…
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New Orleans (East), LA to New Orleans, LA
When we looked to make a reservation a few weeks ago, we found that accommodations in New Orleans during Mardi Gras season are heavily weekend-focused. So in order to get a reasonably-priced place to stay for five nights, we had to do Sunday through Thursday. That’s why we stayed in such a junky motel last…
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Bay St. Louis, MS to New Orleans (East), LA
Today we needed to cross the Pearl River, which defines the border between Mississippi and Louisiana. The obvious route is to continue west on US-90, but when I plotted the general route to New Orleans weeks ago, the routing algorithm refused to let me go that way. Huh? The next crossing is 6 miles north,…