Mosquitoes, poverty, humidity, gators, hurricanes, and backwards ways, the South still holds beauty in all this atrocity. It is not revered as other states and always last in education or any kind of enhancement you can think of. Yet many unspoiled backroads make for great riding and are lined with beautiful old oaks.
Rivers are dotted with house boats and other alternative modes of living.
Swamps always remind me of primordial pools where life once spawned and still does. Gators and other reptiles are numerous and if you have ever visited any third world country on the mosquito coast, then the Mississippi and New Orleans Gulf Coasts will remind you of being in Belize, Honduras, Columbia, and those countries. You can kick back and the sounds of the wild life will elicit memories and sounds of visiting the jungles. Coming out of Slidell, Louisiana to take the backroads into New Orleans or the Mississippi Gulf Coast is Hiway 90. Towards New Orleans you will cross Lake Ponchartrain and ride through Irish Bayou, an old fishing village lined with camps on either side of the road.