Category: Diary
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Day 144 – Opelousas, LA
Sorry to my readers for increasingly neglecting my blog. I’ve been in a lull for a few reasons, but I think largely because… Traveling through Louisiana and coming face to face with the sheer size of the petrochemical infrastructure along the Mississippi is crushing. And I’ve only seen a small portion of it. It’s hard to…
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Day 138 New Orleans Review
I need to sit down and put this one together, but look forward to hearing about music, food and getting the shifter on my bicycle fixed 🙂 For now I am on to Baton Rouge after lying low for a few days in Jefferson.
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Day 131 – Bay Saint Louis, MS > New Orleans, LA
I feel that I’ve lost focus working on the blog in these past few weeks. I think it has a lot to do with being on the road for a long period of time. Even the new is becoming routine – towns and hosts are blurring together in my memory. I find my brain isn’t…
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Day 130 – Pass Christian, MS
Yesterday was a short riding day. I got into Biloxi, MS and saw that a bunch of rain was coming to ducked into the Golden Nugget Casino for some food and gambling. After lunch I tried my luck at roulette and the black jack table and was up and down and finally down, but not…
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Day 126 – Pensacola, FL
It’s been an interesting past couple of days and my legs are all beat to hell. Because of weather I had to cut the first day out of Dothan short which meant the second day was 85 miles in the glorious Florida sun. I made the mistake of not eating until lunch time and thus…
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Day 124 Dothan, AL > Bonifay, AL
I had a great time meeting and spending time with Mark, Gwen and their dog Maddy. They set me up in the guest house that was once a run down garage that Mark converted into a one bedroom apartment for his mom – very nice space and a loving gesture on the part of Mark to taker care…
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Day 123 – 9/11 Doc – Out of the Clear Blue Sky
Last night I finally watched the documentary that I worked on when I was first getting into the business in 2003. Out of the Clear Blue Sky was directed by Danielle Gardner, the sister of Douglas Gardner who worked at the Cantor Fitzgerald the company that lost 658 people on 9-11. The film covers the day…
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Day 119 – Dothan, AL – Dr. George Washington Carver
One things that really got me excited about Dothan early on was its self proclaimed status as, “The Peanut Capital of the World” and if you look at a map of peanut fields there sure are a lot of them surrounding the city, which is in the extreme southeast corner of the state. This year the 71st…
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Day 112 – Apalachicola, FL and the Forgotten Coast
I need to add more to this post, but wanted to get something up. This is a neat town filled with the history of cotton shipping, logging, oysters and the invention of the first ice making machine. I think it now mainly survives on tourism with a big draw being the fall Florida Seafood Festival.…
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Day 110 – Old Town, FL > Perry, FL
I had a good time staying with Patrick Kane in Old Town last night. He already had a tent set-up on the property which I gladly used. He also has a portable squirrel cage fan which created a nice breeze blowing over me during the night. He sent me off this morning with my belly full…