After a quick breakie at IHOP we were on the road again, on our way to New Orleans. Temperatures were still very high and the sun was out all day. Entering Louisiana the road surface improved vastly compared to Texas !! So much nicer to ride on and soo much safer as well.
The I10 route is not the most interesting one but the few 30/40 meter high bridges offer awesome views of the wetlands. Also the elevated roads, 3 meter above waterlevel are a beautiful site. Just think of the work required to install all those piles !!
I decided to speed up a bit doing speeds of around 140 km/h, the bike just zooms along like it is
nothing. Soo smooth, soo powerful and soooooo nice to ride. I arrived in New Orleans just a little after noon and after some riding around I decided to go to Bourbon Street and wait for the rest. Very interesting time there seeing life go by such as the poor drunk black guy that made a nuisance of himself and got arrested. A long talk with one of the shop owners about US/world politics ;)
Finally the guys arrived and made for a great entrance into Bourbon Street, after which we did another few rounds around the block for the film crew.
Then we moved to the French Market area and I took some nice pics of the church and park while we were waiting for the film crew finding their way through the twisty New Orleans streets ;) 
After New Orleans, we went for a Harley dealer in Slidell. Craig knew exactly where it was and we only needed to follow him. After taking the wrong turn twice in 100 meters, we ended up needing to go through the dirt ;) Well that is good and well for Harleys but not for my beautiful lady in blue. So I shot up the freeway and turned at the next exit to return in no time.
After filming us passing the Mississippi sign, we got split up because I needed a new charger. So to save time I opened the throttle a bit further (150 km/h in seconds ;) and shot of to the shopping centre area. After checking various stores (no luck) I started looking for the other. Alas, a change of plans I wasn’t informed of and dead comms of our big boss meant that I had to go look for the boys.
Assuming they decided to head further north as originally agreed I set of to see if I could catch up. Doing 160 km/h I was hoping to catch up soon but after some 100 km it was getting dark and I decided to go off the freeway and find a motel (I tried every motel in the 100 km already but they weren’t there). I finally got hold of them, remember there was no calling, to find out they were in a motel near where I did my shopping. Macca had been put on the lookout for me but never saw me (light speed Kawa ??).
Anyway, this proves that retirement has done its damaging work on Craig ;) Procedure change without informing all team members (most importantly the engineer ;), no comms (due to dead battery) and no use of the other available comms and putting a spotter at the wrong location !!!! Brett, this boy clearly needs some re-education by you mate, good luck on Kupe ;)
Anyway, I did have a nice and quiet night without any snoring J!!!
The I10 route is not the most interesting one but the few 30/40 meter high bridges offer awesome views of the wetlands. Also the elevated roads, 3 meter above waterlevel are a beautiful site. Just think of the work required to install all those piles !!
I decided to speed up a bit doing speeds of around 140 km/h, the bike just zooms along like it is
nothing. Soo smooth, soo powerful and soooooo nice to ride. I arrived in New Orleans just a little after noon and after some riding around I decided to go to Bourbon Street and wait for the rest. Very interesting time there seeing life go by such as the poor drunk black guy that made a nuisance of himself and got arrested. A long talk with one of the shop owners about US/world politics ;) Finally the guys arrived and made for a great entrance into Bourbon Street, after which we did another few rounds around the block for the film crew.
Then we moved to the French Market area and I took some nice pics of the church and park while we were waiting for the film crew finding their way through the twisty New Orleans streets ;) 
After New Orleans, we went for a Harley dealer in Slidell. Craig knew exactly where it was and we only needed to follow him. After taking the wrong turn twice in 100 meters, we ended up needing to go through the dirt ;) Well that is good and well for Harleys but not for my beautiful lady in blue. So I shot up the freeway and turned at the next exit to return in no time.
After filming us passing the Mississippi sign, we got split up because I needed a new charger. So to save time I opened the throttle a bit further (150 km/h in seconds ;) and shot of to the shopping centre area. After checking various stores (no luck) I started looking for the other. Alas, a change of plans I wasn’t informed of and dead comms of our big boss meant that I had to go look for the boys.
Assuming they decided to head further north as originally agreed I set of to see if I could catch up. Doing 160 km/h I was hoping to catch up soon but after some 100 km it was getting dark and I decided to go off the freeway and find a motel (I tried every motel in the 100 km already but they weren’t there). I finally got hold of them, remember there was no calling, to find out they were in a motel near where I did my shopping. Macca had been put on the lookout for me but never saw me (light speed Kawa ??).
Anyway, this proves that retirement has done its damaging work on Craig ;) Procedure change without informing all team members (most importantly the engineer ;), no comms (due to dead battery) and no use of the other available comms and putting a spotter at the wrong location !!!! Brett, this boy clearly needs some re-education by you mate, good luck on Kupe ;)
Anyway, I did have a nice and quiet night without any snoring J!!!
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