Category: Louisiana
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Day 7 – Good Bye New Orleans – Hello Texas (Houston, TX)
We left New Orleans around 9:30 after performing the daily bike safety checks. For lunch, we stopped at Lake Charles in Louisiana at a cozy restaurant – Steamboat Bill’s on the Lake. We ordered the Captain Platter, which had shrimp, oysters, and fish. We enjoyed the food, and especially the cold drinks as the weather…
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Day 6 – Bikes Fixed – Ready To Go (New Orleans, LA)
We drove to Hammond, LA early in the morning where we met with the salesman for the helmet Contour HD camera which we purchased over the phone yesterday for Gintaras. Now both of us have a helmet camera. After that, we drove to Baton Rouge to pick up our bikes from Hebert Cycles BMW dealership.…
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Day 5 – Baton Rouge BMW Dealership and the Beautiful New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
We ate breakfast at our hotel and Gintaras performed Chopin on a piano while dressed in his full motorcycle gear (see Video Gallery). I could not stop laughing while video taping this unusual mix (motorcycle jacket / boots and the Petrof piano). Later, we rode to Baton Rouge to drop off Gintaras’ bike at the…
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Day 4 – Luggage Review, Smokehouse of Laurel and New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
We got up around 7:30am today as we were very tired from yesterday. The weather was beautiful, around 65F (18C). We brought all of our side cases and bags from our motorcycles inside of our hotel room and reviewed all the things we carried. We decided to leave a few items as most likely they…