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Category Archives: Travels
Crawfishing.
19-May-14Eastern Plaquemines Parish.
17-May-14Afikpo My guidebook had not exaggerated when it said that there were no facilities between Pointe a la Hache and Poydras; for thirty-four miles there is not a single gas station, restaurant, grocery store, or anything else. I have often reflected on how important commerce is for community: we need public houses, and businesses are typically […]
Pointe a la Hache.
17-May-14I landed on the eastbank and immediately the place was different. It was quiet here – no highway, and indeed, no people. There was a structure, right across from the ferry landing, which was actually old – somehow or other an old wooden house had survived the hurricanes. It was abandoned, mind you, but it […]
First Cross.
15-May-14I was in one hell of a good mood about riding the ferry. Both the other riders were in their cars, however, and there were no workmen on the deck; so I had my excitement all to myself. I sent a few text messages because I couldn’t help myself: this was my first Mississippi crossing […]
Unfortunately the next morning I lingered a bit in watching the sunrise – it was one of the most spectacular I had seen, beginning almost clear and then rising into a layer of cloud or smog, and turning red and strange. It was precisely the kind of sunrise you would expect in a town called […]
Night on the Big River.
13-May-14That night in my tent I awoke to find the light strangely changed – was it morning already? I looked at my phone – no, it was only two a.m. Everything inside the tent was lightly wet – it must have started raining. I put my shoes on to get the rain-covering on the tent. […]
Gas Station Dinner.
13-May-14I had stopped to camp at mile 34 on my odometer; it ended up being three miles in the dark to get to downtown Port Sulphur, where I was told there was one store open in the evenings that would have food – a gas station. I had a headlight for the bike, but its […]
Empire, Louisiana.
13-May-14The Otters of Saint Ann Empire.
13-May-14Buras did indeed have a little downtown, but the shops were all boarded up or abandoned; it did have a library, however, built on stilts. Local government has apparently made the determination that future floods are to be expected. I visited at a Vietnamese coffee shop just to see it, and got a soda in […]
Where Even the Gravestones Are Racist.
12-May-14There was a battered sign by the road advertising Our Lady of Good Harbor – masses at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays, 5 p.m. Saturdays – but there was no building anymore. I couldn’t even see a foundation for one. There was a cemetery. I used to walk around cemeteries often enough – I […]