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"West Bank" - January 5th, 2008 by Taylor Lasseigne |
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On January 5th, 2008 I took my second major cycling trip up the Mississippi River, this time on the West Bank.
Take a look at my previous East Bank trip.
This journey was thrown together quickly, no maps, no weeks of planning, no grandiose justifications for putting my body through a little torture, just an inclination to ride up the river again for a contrastive perspective. This time around, the weather was completely different. On my last ride up the river, the heat index was well above 100, but this time around the forecast called for a morning chill that would slowly warm to mild. Another big difference between cycling in August and January is the amount of daylight for a given day. In our hemisphere, the difference between a mid-August day and an early January day is about 2 hours. On this ride I would have about 10 hours of sufficient light, probably not enough to reach Baton Rouge from New Orleans. There was no need to over-think these facts. I simply wanted to ride my bicycle. |
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