Page 95 - Louisiana Loop (manuscript Edition)

Now you will have to use your imagination to picture this, and
while I did have pictures of this trail (confiscated by the ATF –
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms), I have to admit my Cajun
Cousins and Louisiana Off Roaders have solved a common
experience most of us have encountered at popular camp sites
or just about anywhere human beings gather and have more
than one Brewskie as they might call it in Northern Minnesota
where in 2016 on the Mississippi River I was introduced to a
can beer I am glad I can’t recall the name or find. It was a
dark beer like a Dark Michelob or ale but amber I think with
no after taste.

I don’t drink beer because of the flavor and after taste so when
on the River I stayed the night with these gentlemen……..I
DRANK BEER AND IT WAS GOOD.

But in Louisiana I saw they had conquered the issue of
notorious beer cans often left behind as litter. It was simple. It
was smart. It was all south and certainly fit the locale.

THEY TREED EM
No seriously, like a coon or a black bear, they treed their
empties so they wouldn’t litter. It was amazing. I was
beautiful in a southern kind of way, and it impressed me
greatly.

I was out walking on a forest trail in the time of year when not
a leaf or a lick of green could be seen on twig or a branch much less a tree growing on the banks of the Mighty
Mississippi River. This made for bare naked trees as tall as you please and just as small as you want and since they had
no foliage being bare naked someone cam up with a great idea.

They Christmas Treed em with Beer Cans. Yep, down right ornamentalized every single bare naked tree along the ATV
Beer Garden Trail (maybe that’s why it’s named that) and starting at 5 feet high or more, (just high enough and just close
enough to the trail to lean over from a Truck or ATV and stick a can on a protruding branch. Most not tied, just upside
down stuck on a branch.
So if you can picture thousands of empty beer cans lining the trail , 5 feet high and higher all next to both sides of the
trail but not one on the ground or crushed, nor past the trees next to the trail, then you saw what I did.
At least two miles long of winding ATV trail with some mud holes of course, I regretted not having a can to add, and I
would have had to look long and hard to find room.

IN THE SPRING and Summer with leaves covering these millions of cans or so along the Mississippi River I imagine
it’s not impressive.

BUT AT NIGHT IN THE WINTER WITH A HEADLIGHT?
I was impressed in the daytime just walking down the trail.