Trip journals, photographs, musings, and campfire conversations … from the left and right side of the road.
C Not much to see, unless you know what went on here in history.. The Tortuga has read just enough history to be curious. Located just north of Forest Hill, Louisiana on Highway 165 the largest war game in American History was conducted to get the Army ready to win the next war. The Louisiana Maneuvers conducted[…]
Louisiana’s only barrier island The Tortuga has a common connection between Grand Isle and Galveston and it’s a pirates story. The path to Grande Isle is to experience manmade and natural coastal erosion. It is to watch the land disappear below your feet. Land, turns to a road with water on both sides, turns to a long[…]
New Orleans The French Quarter, for most humans, that is all they know of New Orleans, but there is so much more, but for this trip it was the place to start. Tortuga is a Big Truck, and it would be nice to be close to down town. Now this is a secret and not to be[…]
Best Laid Plans, Cypremort Point State Park, Louisiana The turnaround point would be New Orleans but there was no rush. The path to the French Quarter would be along the coast line, away from the Interstate where most had nowhere to go and wanted to do it at 80 plus MPHs. The coast road prove to[…]