Lake Pontchartrain New Orleans

New Orleans , Louisiana, United States
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  • 1

    Driving & Walking America's Most Interesting City!

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    ... .   Back in the truck I headed to Lakeshore Drive. The northernmost boundary of New Orleans. The Lakeview neighbourhood borders Lake Pontchartrain. This neighbourhood is/was considered moderately affluent. Most of this area was built on ...

  • 2

    From Island Retreat to Magazine Street

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    ... Earth Science class in high school, moody and dark, silver-lined, and rays of God everywhere! Then, as we drove across Lake Pontchartrain, the sun reflected off the water in the most saturated shades of magenta, burnt sienna, fuschia, and blood orange. ...

  • 3

    Laissez les bons temps rouler

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    ... or slaves would live.  We finish the drive by returning to Rebecca's house and picking up the dog to take him to Lake Pontchartrain.  The dog appreciates the trip out and it gives me an opportunity to see more of New Orleans and not just ...

  • 4

    New Orleans...so very sad.

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    ... it still barricaded, we didn't stop and just returned to the RV and left the next morning. Leaving New Orleans we crossed Lake Pontchartrain and the hurricane destruction everywhere was very evident, but as we passed through Mississippi and got into ...

  • 5

    The Deep South

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    ... – perhaps we should give New Orleans a second chance.  We returned by way of the 'longest viaduct in the world', across Lake Pontchartrain, 23.5 miles long.  At about 1700 we booked in at the Colonial Court Motel, had a swim in the motel ...

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    Day 14- “Rain is a good thing”

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    ... we could make it to New Orleans during the same day. It did happen! Maybe the only thing worth mentioning was the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (consists of two parallel bridges, the longest one being 38 kilometres long) which we crossed. Possibly some of ...

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    Saturday Night's Alright (For Music)

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    ... been avid campers I can say I have spent many a day on lake shores up and down the West Coast but I would have to rate Lake Pontchartrain right up there with some of the best. Before you even get to the lake you pass a fairly large children's water ...

  • 8

    The Big Easy

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    ... but it allowed me to visit some more remote parts of the city like the Garden District. I also went to the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, crossing the "hood" (where I went through as fast as possible) and the huge City Park.The shore of the Lake is ...

  • 9

    New Orleans

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    ... a laptop, much to Mike's dismay that we had ventured on the freeway on a 50cc scooter. Also took the scooter up to Lake pontchartrain and saw the devestation still left by hurricane katrina, but it was good to see people are rebuilding and that there's ...

  • 10

    New Orleans and Oak Alley

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    We had a long drive to New Orleans, and took the shorter of the two bridges that cross Lake Pontchartrain (didn't need to be on a bridge for 24 miles!), then explored Oak Alley. Also did a walking tour of the French Quarter, where our hotel was ...