Galveston to New Orleans/Lake Pontchartrain

418 miles yesterday. By far our longest of the trip. We have ridden over 3000 miles now. The weather was just about perfect, 80 to 90 degrees with a tail wind most all the way. The roads in Louisiana are not nearly as good as the ones in Texas but the scenery was great. We rode about a hundred miles along the gulf. The stretch in LA was very remote with very few people using the beaches.

I guess one way to tell where you are is by the road kill you see. In the Bayou country it was little alligators and turtles. We saw a lot of the alligators in the waters along side the road. Much bird life and greenery. It is nice to finally get out of the desert we spent so much time in.

We will be setting up camp here for at least three nights. Bentley will be glad of that, by the end of the day yesterday he was all done in from so many hours cooped up in his kennel but he is being a real trooper.

We didn’t get many pictures yesterday, Von’s camera battery crapped out again so she couldn’t take any from the bike and I knew we had so many miles to get in that I didn’t want to stop.

Today is laundry day and grocery shopping. Then tomorrow we will ride into New Orleans for some touristy stuff.

Lake Pontchartrain is huge. The causeway we took to get to our camp is over 20 miles long and you can’t see the other end of the lake in any direction while in the middle of it. That’s something I didn’t realize when reading all the news stories of the Hurricane Katrina. The state park we are in, Fontainbleu, is beautiful if pretty wet at this time of the year with a lot of mosquitoes at night. It is pretty cool temperature-wise this morning, quite a surprise after the heat and humidity when we arrived at 6:30 last night.

All is well.

Greg