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In case you can't keep up, here's a map, I don't wait for anyone.
    When you cross the Red, you leave South Louisiana. It's a different state. Be careful though, there are Tiger Fans everywhere. All Tiger Fans act like Alumni and many aren't, never going there or only for a while. What brought that on?
  I always wanted to go down La.454, knowing it was there. So I did. I had looked at the map and seen United Gas Ln. My father and my wife's father had worked for the pipeline company. That explains my muti-culural upbringing and why I'm a LousiTexan, and this picture.
   People working for "oil related" companies were transferred a lot.
Dirt Road---------------
   I turned down this dirt road. See "Dirt Road" on the map. Barry said I must have been crazy taking a street bike down it. And?
Looking down to What?
                                  This.
"Crazy" is my ticket. The Red in full splendor.
There's a little houseboat down there. Cool.
   On the ride back up the hill, I saw this. I guess I had been concentrating too much to see it on the way down.
  This is true modern art. Let you imagination roam. Of course it's going to be a "Monster Bus", immediately Ray Fagan saw that. Then he made some lude comment, somthing about"Louisianian Fantansies".
   The next Point of Interest on La.454 is a Biggie. I told you in the last article, "Discoveries", that Louisiana had a lot of dams. Maybe more than Nevada. I bet.   See the Whiteville Dam.
   "No. 2" is a horrible name for a dam. With all the history in this state, all they can come up with is "No.2."  " No. 2" is a terrible name.
Of course it's a federal name since it is a Corps of Engineer's dam and they named it in an engineering way.  But "Number 2", come on.
    I think it should be name for General Taylor who tried his darndest to stop the yankees, but they rose to the occasion (Alexanadria Rapids) and got by anyway. Read about the Red River Campaign and you'll understand.
Well there's the first barge I've seen on this end of the river.
   Nice Place. Rates a "Planet". You'd have to have read the last article, "Discoveries", to understand that. See all this stuff is linked. If you don't understand it all, you can buy all the articles for $19.95 at the site store. There is no "site store".
   Yes, the Red is a serious river. It started out in West Texas and carries a lot of attitude. It gets meaner a short ways down after the Black and the Quachita add their flow. Then a bit further down it's called the Atchafalaya. Of course, that's after 30% of the Mississippi's flow joins in.