March 30, 2021
Day 31 DeRidder, LA to Ville Platte, LA
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Leaving DeRidder, we saw many roofs with blue tarps and many uprooted trees and trees snapped in half...all a result of the hurricane of August 2020.
Ah...the roads in Louisiana are much nicer than Texas for the most part.
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About 30 miles east of DeRidder we rode by crawfish fields! These flooded fields grow rice part of the year and crawfish other months!
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We had some excitement at lunch. We stopped in front of a volunteer fire co. garage in Oberlin, LA. Very quickly two volunteer firefighters came and expressed concern that we were blocking their garage door. So we moved aside, but also realized that the van's back wheel was stuck in the wet ground (we were below sea level at times!). One firefighter came back with a chain and bigger truck. He saved our bacon!
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Louisiana has parishes rather than counties. As cyclists we are very aware of county lines because the roads change. Evangeline Parish did not start out well!
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We had side winds and headwinds today but got into Best Western Ville Platte just before it rained.
We have been surrounded by wildflowers which is delightful. Here are two I have not identified...can anyone help?
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https://warcapps.usgs.gov/PlantID/Species/Details/2689
3 years ago
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http://www.missouriplants.com/Trifolium_incarnatum_page.html
Tiny yellow ones are black medick.
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&rel-taxon=begins+with&where-taxon=Medicago+lupulina
White ones with a yellow center are a species of fleabane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erigeron
Not enough detail to find a good matching photo for the tiny white ones.
3 years ago
Today's ride: 78 miles (126 km)
Total: 905 miles (1,456 km)
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