State 41 of 50  

 

 

    Louisiana

 

Capital: Baton Rouge

Population: 4,470,000 (ranked 25th of 50 states)

Area: 134,000 kmē (ranked 31st of 50 states)

 

 

 

 

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Ride Report

This state: 360 kms     Journey to date: 21,862 kms

Scroll down below the route map for this state's ride report and photos

 

 

Ride Report

Originally I was going to make Louisiana a 'significant' state. In other words I was going to spend some time in it, namely riding through the bayous south of New Orleans and across the Lake Ponchartrain causeway. If you've read the Florida page you'll understand why Louisiana has now been downgraded to a 'get through it' state. I'm out-running Hurricane Ike and attempting to beat it to Texas. That means that I saw Louisiana over the handlebars while blasting across the northern part of the state from Vicksburg to Shreveport on I-20.

The only time I got off the freeway was to refuel and a small detour along a side road just to see if could remember what it was like to ride in a gear lower than 6th.

So the photos are rubbish but on an inter-state what is there to snap anyway? You can't stop and there's nothing to see. The pics below are all from the small detour I did manage to do on a back road.

But here they anyway.... sorry about the quality. Normal service will resume when I'm not in so much of a hurry.