It’s still too windy to leave so our new departure date will be tomorrow. I think we’ve all had enough of New Orleans!!!!! We will spend the day getting our boats ready (fuel, water, maybe a load of laundry and etc…). Josh is go…
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10/29/2012 – Monday – New Orleans play day
Had another windy, bouncy ”line screeching” night again. The wind will just not stop blowing. If you look through the Seabrook railroad bridge when it is in the up position into Lake Ponchartrain you can see big waves and whitecaps.&nbs…
10/28/2012 – Sunday – New Orleans play day
Today is still very windy but the sun is out. We road our bikes to the grocery store for one last time before we head out towards Gulfport on Tuesday. We filled the water tanks and put away the bikes getting ready for Tuesday morning’s departur…
10/27/2012 – Saturday – New Orleans play day
The front came through during the middle of the night so we woke up to a windy, cold and cloudy day. A good day to just chill – and that’s just what we did!
10/26/2012 – Friday – New Orleans play day
All 12 of us took the 10:00 AM bus into the French Quarter again and started off with coffee and beignets at the famous Café du Monde. That afternoon we split up and Josh and I walked all over Bourbon Street, the waterfront, the farmer’s mar…
10/25/2012 – Thursday – New Orleans play day
The day started off with all of us doing laundry, a bike ride to the grocery store and then taking the bus into the French Quarter to sightsee and have dinner. What a place for people watching!
10/24/2012 – Wednesday – Lafitte to New Orleans (Pontchartrain Landing)
This is our big day! We have two locks and seven bridges to go through so we headed out around 7:15 AM to arrive at the first bridge for the first opening after the blackout time. Some of the bridges around New Orleans have blackout ( or
10/23/2012 – Tuesday – Houma to Lafitte
We all pulled out of Houma around 8:00 AM after waiting for a long tow to go by. After several debates on where to stay in Lafitte, Josh talked to a developer and he said we could use his canal. The only problem was that he did not tell us …
10/22/2012 – Monday – Houma play day
What a great town! We started off heading over to the Hospital around 8:00 AM for breakfast and free Wi-Fi. After that, some of us unloaded our bikes and road all over town exploring. We found a hardware store for Barry that is …
10/21/2012 – Sunday – Berwick to Houma, mile 57
We all headed out at 7:30 AM after a sleepless night of being slammed against the bulkhead from wave action, ship horns, railroad bridge telephone ringing and railroad trains. We went straight through the Bayou Boeuf Locks at 8:00 AM – gates were…
