Yes Paul you only get one shot at life.:kneel:

Inspiring stuff and safe travels..

As the old lady says to Dan Walsh in his great read 'These Are The Days That Must Happen To You'

"There is more time than life"

so now time to head back out...there is a big world out there even though many people think you don't have to leave the country for adventure!!!

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...and leave some tracks...:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

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obviously i'm packed and have nothing to do right now, if it wasn't 3 in the afternoon i think i would leave

Since all the packing was done I took a ride to the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City, it is the longest running festival in Louisiana and has been going 77 years.

There was a full moon between the new and old bridges, this is the same old bridge that Peter Fonda and Denis Hopper rode over in �Easyrider�.

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Not thinking I just took my little point and shoot, so when I heard of the fireworks display at the end of the night I was kind of screwed�

I found concrete block to rest the camera on and tried my best, this was it!!!

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with a little HDR help

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Rolled out around noon, (over the old bridge out of Morgan City) if you didn't know, this is the same bridge Kris Kristopherson used to fly over as a helicopter pilot in 1969 when he writing "Me and Bobby McGee" for Janis Joplin - how about that for useless information :huh:huh:huh

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took a real leisurely ride not knowing if my planned route would work because of Hurricane Isaac�I was only detoured once. It appeared that Louisiana got the worse of the flood but Missippippi got some real bad winds as trees were down everywhere

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I rode thru towns that people and time had forgotten about but the hurricane had no trouble finding

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Ended the day at Lincoln State Park in Mississippi and was the only one there...besdies the 'gators who don't like loud music

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Back roads and rain�lots of both them, riding thru Mississippi into Alabama, going by big old houses for the rich to live in and big factories for the poor to work in�

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When I crossed the state line it was on a small back road which Mississippi cared about but Alabama didn�t, so much so it went from pavement to gravel to sand to mud in about � mile, and then was washed out due to last nights 8 inches of rain, time to double back!

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�but on the double back I did find this�

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rode from Alabama thru a little Georgia and into North Carolina, lots of back roads

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but no blue sky until I saw some mountains

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I took the Tatum Gap, which is part of the Trail of Tears from the early 1800’s

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BTW look out for 40 foot purple gorillas!!!

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Looking good Paul,is that cloud formation giving you the finger.LOL The country side has a surreal look,thank you for sharing your travel. Barry.:brave:

i'm in North Carolina for the Horizons unlimited meeting, meeting lots of cool people having a good time, minimal riding for me as i have done this area numerous times before so not going to bore you with 20 photos of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just two :lol3

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all i can tell, if you haven't ridden you should....


took a little time out yesterday and went the Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum, and met up with Dale the owner curator, talk about super knowledgeable and fun guy, and not to mention firing multiple bike up on request and riding them around, it was great (location Maggie Valley NC) if you are in the area stop in...here's a few shots

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this is Dale with his bike that he ran the 2010 Canonball, 1917 and earlier bikes

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have a look around the museum...thru mu eyes

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There's some good looking bikes in there. Paul:rankn-cpo: