11/6 day 19

We got superbreakfast at nikki's after leaving an rv park with 175 sites. Then we rode and rode and rode through louisiana. All the roads we were on today were really s. Except the last road to the rv park tonight. A place called maxeycare. Sounds like maxipad to me. We basically rode along the levee or whatever almost all day. It was windy and just over the top of the grass to the left, we could see the floody river areas. It made us think about how hard people try to manipulate the land to save having to move. We saw lots of big pelicans in the floodways, trolling for fishies. After a long while, we stopped to make some tuna sandy lunch and took a stretch and kept going. We read in the book that we would pass some army corps of engineers place that would have water and bathies, but it was all locked up and no one home. I walked around the back of the building to investigate further and there was a little walkway to nowhere and a plaque that said what you saw there was a of the mississippi river made for the 1985 worlds fair. A: I didn't realize they had worlds fairs that recently and what happened to that ? B: how the do you just make a river that is life sized? Wouldn't that just be a manmade river? It did look just like the real river though, which was about a mile away. Over the part of the river we crossed, or what we think was the river, were these enormous rock and iron structures. They were essentially bridges, but they had lots of other cool features such as catwalks, control towers, signs that said "old river control auxillary structure". Train tracks, a single track on either side of the bridge, made a path for these huge iron gate control machines to move on to each control gate. There were amazing x patterns made by enormous cables criss crossing the angled stone of the bridge structure and the whole thing looked like something from the future. But something from the far future that has been forgotten already and left to rust. Under the bridges the river ran and swelled and had some looking currents. We passed those things, and kept going and going until we finally came to a very small town, hit a grocery, and then kept riding to morganza, la. After chili and bread & butter and candy for dinner, we are retired. After 80 miles, we better damn be. We now have approximately 180 miles to go. Ahhh. Sent from my fingers and brain.