If you are looking to stay in the New Orleans area for a visit, and you are not the type that likes to stay right downtown, I would urge you to consider the Covington/Mandeville area on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain.  It has a nice small town feel to it with loads of parks, hiking and biking trails, and a good mix of hotels and restaurants.  Downtown New Orleans is a twenty minute shot across the causeway.  It’ll cost you $3 inbound but nothing to come back across.

Fountain bleu is a nice place to camp and is situated right by a 30 mile bike trail.  Oh, and this bike trail features a stop at the Old Rail Brewing Co.

 

I just love the moss ladened trees of the southeast.  You just can’t get a feel from pictures how immense some of them are.

Almost every night I was here I would take a late ride over to the  Day Use and Pavilion area on the lake shore.  These meadows would absolutely fill up with deer at night.  A couple of times one almost crashed right into me.

I’ll be heading into Texas next.  First Galveston, then Corpus Christi, and then a trip along the Rio Grande up into west Texas.

I am well and hope you all are too.