Written Wednesday, October 31, 2012
It's Halloween!! Today we rode from Amite City to Bogalusa on highways 16 and 10. Nothing fancy, just LA highways. Rick woke up this morning with muscle pains in his shoulders and chest, probably due to jarring road conditions and the long mileage yesterday. It was a LONG day, for sure.
Bogalusa is nothing to write home about. It's a papermill town and smells of such. The area of town that has all the services - Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, fast foods, etc. and the Budget Motel -- wasn't the greatest. The Budget Motel (listed in the ACA map) is a pretty scary place. There was a girl sitting on the curb there probably waiting for her drug fix. The room we looked at was small, dingy, and smelled of cigarette smoke. I asked if there was a non-smoking room and the guy (with a dot in the middle of his forehead) looked at me like "what? you expect people not to smoke?". So...we rode past all the services to a more distant part of town, past the country club, past the paper mill and the "other side of the tracks" to the Traveler's Rest Motel. An okay place but the only food/grocery within walking distance (just across the street) is a gas station with a cajun deli (i.e., fried crawfish/catfish). Some halfway decent fried shrimp/catfish and boiled shrimp & crab, but very limited (non-existent) on any other type of grocery.
We have been riding hard and long for about 12 days now....I think we need a rest day. This isn't the greatest town to take a rest day in, but when you need one, you just need one and the motel's not bad.
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