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Tag Archives: Port Sulphur

First Morning and First Brush With The Law.

15-May-14

Tunduma Unfortunately the next morning I lingered a bit in watching the sunrise – it was one of the most spectacular I had seen, beginning almost clear and then rising into a layer of cloud or smog, and turning red and strange.  It was precisely the kind of sunrise you would expect in a town called […]

Night on the Big River.

13-May-14

General Enrique Mosconi That night in my tent I awoke to find the light strangely changed – was it morning already? I looked at my phone – no, it was only two a.m. Everything inside the tent was lightly wet – it must have started raining. I put my shoes on to get the rain-covering on the tent. […]

Gas Station Dinner.

13-May-14

I had stopped to camp at mile 34 on my odometer; it ended up being three miles in the dark to get to downtown Port Sulphur, where I was told there was one store open in the evenings that would have food – a gas station.  I had a headlight for the bike, but its […]