Opposite the levee, across the road, scenes such as these are common.
  Stopping for a break and gazing out over all this pretty was getting me sleepy. Gazing takes time and in these winter months time can get away from you......
   Churches are not my usual subjects, but this little Presbyterian... Where did it come from, here in Catholic bayouland? Anyway, it caught my eye. I wish that there had been some light behind the stained glass windowns. It was the Atchafalaya Presbyterian Church. I shouldn't have been surprised. Pockets of different nationalities are scattered throughout La. No single brush can paint Louisiana. We are the gumbo pot of melting pots. Getting carried away.
   As I said, dark was coming.  A decision had to be made. I carry enough stuff to camp and like I said, it sure wasn't cold, so I decided to head to a place up in the swamp and stay the night.
    Louisiana, well, you just never know. Every outing is an adventure. Difference is, in Louisiana., these adventures become multi-dimentional. This ride would prove that there is more out on the road than one suspects.
    After assembling my new windshield, I decided it was time to brave the cold winds of winter.  It was January and 70 F. degrees. As if in warp speed,  I was in Krotz Springs where I would start my ride up La.105, the Easy Rider Road. The mystique of the levee has been drawing me lately. This time I would go to Louisiana's most famous levee road, La. 105. The final stretch for "Easy Rider", the movie.
    The road was chosen over other levee highways by the producers of the 1968 film,"Easy Rider", because of its remoteness and lack of traffic.  I would suspect. It was lonely back in the late 60's. Nothing much but cattle raising on the levee between Krotz Springs and Melville, and then less above Melville into Simmesport.    
    Today, there is a little more home building above Krotz Springs but past that, not much. A ride up to Melville might mean encountering two or three cars/trucks at the most. Perfect for the last scene of the movie, Louisiana's ultimate blackeye of that era.  Discounting that, it is a great ride.. The surface is brand new. Levee roads follow levees and levees follow rivers and the rivers in Louisiana do not run straight. Not even the Big Muddy. They turn and twist and turn. Sounds like a great motocycle road, doesn't it. And, so it is.
     That's one reason I came back today. Let's head on up 105 and check it out.
Easy Rider Road
The sign says it all.
    It was time to move on, passing the intersection with La.360 at Bayou Current which takes you to Palmetto. What a great town name.  Look at this road snake. The shadows were getting long and srtobbing across the road in varying intensities. wow
Sorry, regressing.