bessie
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bessie, how did you figure out this it was Parish Road 3-95?!! i tried typing in 395 etc etc etc. i never even knew there were such things as Parish roads. i hate to get all into this location, but it really makes a lot of sense to me since it's a straight shot from 190 on the way to I-10 exit 127 where he left the bike. it seems easy and it's certainly secluded there. there's a perfect dirt road that takes you right to the river/bay/pilot channel whatever.
another thing i'm thinking is that the exit par3-95 leads to is exit 121 which is the very nice Butte La Rose Welcome Center/Rest Area. Do you think he would have stopped there afterwards to sleep? I wonder if they have cameras that they can check.
here's a link to the Butte La Rose/Atchafalaya Welcome Center
http://dnr.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&pid=487&pnid=273&nid=279
I'm a psychic, dontchaknow. :floorlaugh:
Seriously, I opened the map to the Sherburne Forest and looked north of exit 127. Par 3-95 jumped out at me. Then I went to street view and my little yellow man found the transformer tower along 3-95/ W Atchafalaya Levee Rd. That was the first picture I posted. But, when I did an aerial view, I found the transformer behind the levee on the edge of the forest. I don't put much stock into stray comments left on news sites. This one got my attention, though, because it suggests a spot along the route he would have taken from CP to WB, or vice versa. And it's on the edge of the forest. There's a spot about one half mile south of there where Par 3-95 crosses the levee and merges into the WAL Rd.
[ame="http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=W+Atchafalaya+Levee+Rd%2FPar+Rd+3-95&daddr=LA-752&hl=en&ll=30.45752,-91.757724&spn=0.001225,0.002642&sll=30.457571,-91.756707&sspn=0.004902,0.010568&geocode=Fc6_0AEd5eCH-g%3BFapf0QEdGJWA-g&t=h&mra=dme&mrsp=0&sz=17&z=19"]W Atchafalaya Levee Rd/Par Rd 3-95 to LA-752 - Google Maps[/ame]