Saturday's ride was a really amazing experience. Sonny, Chris, Dave and I met up with around 50 other riders at Audubon Park around 8am and spent the next six hours riding through (and stopping in) almost 50 miles of the most damaged parts of our region including Central City, Lakeview, Gentilly, New Orleans East, St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward. Riding through it all really gave me a new perspective of just how massive the footprint of destruction is and just how far behind we are with our reconstruction efforts. When will this all be fixed? Will it ever?
Link to my photos of the ride
Link to CHOMPS' account of the ride
Link to Baton Rouge Advocate coverage of the event
Amazing. I think of scenes from Beirut in the 80s, or maybe something out of a Mad Max movie.
Posted by: Fritz | January 31, 2006 at 04:56 PM