Hi, and good morning! This is our last day on the road to New Orleans, and I am about to lift the bike out of Nola for the final 75 miles of our much-shortened run. I’ve bonded some with the bike, and I’m thinking perhaps I should name “her” ,too. This ride will be the easiest, and the most enjoyable. As I approach the city, I am glad to be up ahead of my alarm in anticipation of coming home to a place I began a love affair with two years ago. The people of this warm city, and the state of Louisiana, are always with me. Their friendly, welcoming ways draw me back, and I so look forward to riding in to my adopted home, into the seeming open arms of a place that’s found a permanent corner in my heart. Everyone I meet smiles. What a genuine, soothing comfort that is. That is New Orleans.

See you there!

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