Day 216 March 3, 2017 Raceland to Morgan City, LA

We are most definitely in the bayou country of Louisiana. Very flat, very wet. It tends to be hot and humid down here; sugar cane grows well, as do crawfish. Louisiana harvests 110 million pounds of the critters every year.

Today, however, the temps were in the low to mid 60's with a NE wind of 12-18 mph. Look can look at our map, and pretty well figure out what kind of day we had. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19326013 Oh, yeah; we were windstrong.

Catholic cemetery in North Raceland, about five miles into our ride. High water table in bayou country.




We spent about 20 miles of today's ride on LA-20/182, moving almost effortlessly due to our tail wind. Bayous joined us for the whole time.








We stopped for a snack break, and Margaret found a snake in some wildflowers.


Despite Morgan City being only seven feet above sea level, we had one bridge to climb before getting to town. View from the top. I understand the river boat operates as a casino.


Tomorrow we ride 53 miles from Morgan City to New Iberia, LA. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19326403

Good night.