Stormy Skies Over Lake Pontchartrain

Stormy Skies Above Lake PontchartrainI woke up this morning in the mood for a long bike ride, so logged on to the googleymap and picked somewhere to go.  Today it was the Municipal Yacht Harbor.  I just don’t usually put “municipal” and “yacht” in the same breath, so I wanted to see what was out there.  Continue reading

Decaying Building at Pontchartrain Beach

Decaying Building at Pontchartrain BeachIt was another seventy degree day in New Orleans, and I got up early enough to get a nice long ride in before my night class.  Jack and I rode out Elysian Fields, because Googlemaps said there’d be an amusement park at the end.  Continue reading

Sky Above Lake Pontchartrain

Sky above Lake PonchartrainToday is my 200th blog post.  That’s a lot of writing, and a lot of riding, my bike around, every day.  Today’s ride took me through so many different parts of New Orleans.  Continue reading

Bikes on Lake Pontchartrain at the Tour de Lis

Tour de Lis on LakeshoreI didn’t ride a bicycle for three days in a row.  I can’t remember the last time that happened.  But I was on a trip to Kansas City for a conference, and didn’t bring my bike with me.  I rode the bus and walked, jealously eyeing cyclists as they sped up and down the hills on Main Street.  After a truly awful flight home (Houston, you’ve got some problems), the last thing I wanted to do was wake up at 6:30 in the morning for a group bike rideContinue reading