by Woodlief Thomas | May 23, 2010 | Louisiana
Mr. Lam hasn’t taken his boat out in weeks. BP told him shortly after the spill that they would call him to use his boat for laying boom. According to Mr. Lam this job would earn him $1,500 a day, however BP has not called. He has only received the $5,000 check...
by Taylor Lasseigne | May 22, 2010 | Louisiana
A month after the Transocean / BP / Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes, burns, and begins to perpetually leak oil into the Gulf of Mexico, I walk onto the beach at Grand Isle, unprepared for what I am about to witness. In the first weeks of the disaster, I tracked the...
by Taylor Lasseigne | Nov 7, 2009 | Louisiana
Fall is such a nice time for biking in South Louisiana. No, we don’t have the typical “fall foliage” here – more of a green to yellow transition as seen through the smoke of billowing cane field fires, but despite the lack of leaves bursting...
by Taylor Lasseigne | Apr 14, 2009 | Louisiana
Some trips are planned out out months or even years in advance. Phone calls, maps, gear needs, reservations, research, and countless hours traveling a virtual path in Google Earth typically come before these arduously strategical undertakings. This was not one of...
by Taylor Lasseigne | Jan 5, 2008 | Louisiana
On January 5th, 2008 I took my second major cycling trip up the Mississippi River, this time on the West Bank. 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...
by Taylor Lasseigne | Aug 18, 2007 | Louisiana
by Taylor Lasseigne / August 18th, 2007 / This is a story about a cycling trip that follows every curve of the Mississippi River’s east bank, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA. On this self-propelled two-wheel adventure, the clock started at 5:40 AM when my...
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