I’ll take a little break from the blog in the coming days, to dedicate to other matters. For the note, I came back to Vancouver safe and sound on Dec. 8th, and am slowly trying to catch up with the daily posts since. I’ll be back soon, don’t leave! Cheers Phil
As decided previously, I left the motel in Slidell around 9:30am and went straight to the Interstate 10 to start a pretty long ride to Houston – around 600km in total. The two cities I had planned to check out on the way were Lafayette and Baton Rouge. The city names were mostly what caught my […]
My Saturday in New Orleans started with parking at the same parking as the day before, however this time I opted for 24 hours parking (52 bucks) rather than paying several times smaller amounts in various parking that would have totalized more than this. I still find it pretty crazy to pay more for parking than for my motel (usually in […]
Note: another heavily photo-loaded post. Get a good connection 😉So today is the day I will finally reach New Orleans, a city that always played a lot with my imagination, thanks to the funeral march scene in James Bond’s Live And Let Die and the many other movies that were filmed there. I am also worried about how much Katrina, from a […]
Riding alone around the states for 6 weeks has been hard. Several times, I found myself singing – or rather humming since I honestly don’t even know the lyrics of most of the songs I like -, talking alone, calling some drivers idiots or commenting aloud on anything I was looking at. At one point, I even started talking […]
Note: this post holds many pictures – a good internet connection may be required After a good night of rest at the Royal Inn in Perry, FL I restarted my journey toward New Orleans. The distance to “NOLA” as they call the city being close to 450 miles, I didn’t plan to do the trip in one […]
This map shows the whole itinerary I followed for my trip around the United States. Some roads may not have been exactly the ones I took, but the path should be very close to the one I took. The respective daily posts may offer a more detailed and exact path (using my iphone GPS tracker’s log)
So, the goal today was to reach the north of Florida, so that I could hit the west end of the state by the next day. I also planned to check out Tampa, which name sounded familiar for some reason (some of the big IT business may have some HQ there, possibly IBM…) I also planned […]
3h55 would be the duration of this day’s trip if I didn’t stop, but I stopped a few times during the day, as usual. The road for that trip went through the Everglades, a wild region covered with swamps where several touristic stops offer airboat excursions over the swamps. I hesitated but decided not to do these, […]
One of the first days I could ride with no load on the bike, except my tools bag in one of the side cases. I also separated my normal shoes and jeans and would use the space available in the other cases to keep my leather jacket and riding pants at destination; temperatures were indeed getting higher […]
