Morgan City to New Orleans

A nice morning, chilly with the sun was out. We had planned to make a stop in Houma but Hwy 182 but the road is so bad in the RV (lots of broken pavement from the storms and too much water on soggy soils) that we opted to get on Hwy 90 directly and head into New Orleans. It was a nice drive on good pavement all the way into the outskirt of New Orleans. We had two places where the adrenaline went way up. The first occurred when we were going over a bayou where the road was being worked on and it narrowed to one lane.


The next was when we crossed the Mississippi on the "Greater New Orleans Bridge". This bridge is still under repair and was down to one lane. Soaring over 60 feet in the air, this old iron trestle bridge was scary enough, but with the lane cut down to 10 feet between the cones and the low railing there wasn't much room for error. The RV is 8 foot 6 inches from mirror to mirror. Tina said she was closing her eyes and to let her know when we were across. Even when the we passed the work zone and it opened up to two lanes, I rode the center line all the way down to the street level. Wufff!!


We made it across with no incident and continued into town, onto I-10, off I-10 and just as we were going to complete our last series of turns we were stopped by a guy in a pickup truck going the opposite direction. He asked if we were headed for Pontchartrain Landing RV Park? I said yes and he suggested we follow him for a couple of blocks and he'd make sure we made the correct turns. Turns out he works for the RV Park. So he turned around and we followed him through a couple of turns and onto our final street. A mile down the road we pulled into the RV Park, registered and pulled into our spot for the next four nights.



Distance this leg, 90 miles. Total so far including side trips, 4,302 miles.



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