The overcast skies made it seem particularly dark this morning when I hit the levee, and being a Friday I wasn't surprised that there was nobody waiting up at the usual spot. A mile or two later I was surprised to see Courtney coming the other way. She stopped and turned around so we could ride together. Courtney's house in Gentilly was flooded in the hurricane and she had to move to Baton Rouge for the Fall school semester while her kids were in school there. Then she bought a fixer-upper in Mandeville, across the lake from New Orleans. The plan was to commute across the causeway with her son in school at Ben Franklin and her working out at Elmwood leading Spinning classes. There were a couple other folks in Mandeville in the same situation, so the commuting chores could be shared. Then at the last minute the others backed out, enrolling their kids in Mandeville High instead, so Courtney was practically forced to follow suit, at least for this semester. Anyway, she was in town to meet at Elmwood and see what she could work out there.
Along the way we ran into a couple other riders and for a little while had four whole people, but the pace stayed slow and conversational. This afternoon I'll be heading over to Baton Rouge for a gymnastics meet between Iowa and LSU. It will be fun, even if I already know the probable outcome, and The Daughter and the rest of the team is planning on making a road trip over to New Orleans on Saturday for some sight-seeing, so that will keep us pretty busy. Kenny B gave me some ideas as to where to take them so they can get a little tour of the hurricane impact. Meanwhile, I'm still working out of the house because they're not expecting our office downtown to have power again until some time during the weekend, and they don't really seem all too sure about that.
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