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var AlbumTitle = "Lafayette to Baton Rouge 2005";
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var IntroSlide = new Slide("Intro.jpg", 0, "6/3/2005", "");
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SlideArray[0] = new Slide("", 2, "", "Lafayette to Baton Rouge - 2005");
SlideArray[1] = new Slide("", 4, "", "Cool Bridges");
SlideArray[2] = new Slide("IMG_8293.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "The 18-mile Basin Bridge on the Atchafalaya Swamp Expressway between Lafayette and Baton Rouge is an engineering marvel.");
SlideArray[3] = new Slide("IMG_8294.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "There are few exits and no access roads.  All that is below is swampy water and trees on either side.");
SlideArray[4] = new Slide("IMG_8295.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "The bridge crosses several rivers (including the Atchafalaya) along the way.");
SlideArray[5] = new Slide("IMG_8296.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "The Atchafalaya, deep in the heart of Cajun country, is the largest bottomland hardwood swamp in the United States.");
SlideArray[6] = new Slide("IMG_8297.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "A small clearing in the swamp along the route.");
SlideArray[7] = new Slide("IMG_8298.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "One local (Thomas Kibodeaux) writing on an Internet newsgroup regarding the need for a guide to tour the Atchafalaya Swamp and Basin said, 'The Atchafalaya is no place to wander around on your own. I have seen much of the basin from near I-10 all the way south to the Atchafalaya Bay @ Morgan City. It is definetly worth seeing, and could provide you with thousands of great images, or a lifetime of nightmares. But the first 30 times you visit, it all looks the same after an hour or two of cruising around.'  For the entire quote, check the journal for this picture album.");
SlideArray[8] = new Slide("IMG_8299.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "It must have been miserable to be on the crew that constructed this long bridge.");
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SlideArray[10] = new Slide("IMG_8301.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "The Whiskey Bay exit with more water in the median ahead in the distance.  This exit leads to the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge.");
SlideArray[11] = new Slide("IMG_8302.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "Crossing the might Mississippi River at Baton Rouge.");
SlideArray[12] = new Slide("IMG_8306.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "Downtown Baton Rouge north of I-10 above the Mississippi River.");
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SlideArray[14] = new Slide("IMG_8310.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "LSU campus south of the I-10 bridge over the Mississippi in Baton Rouge.");
SlideArray[15] = new Slide("IMG_8311.JPG", 0, "6/3/2005", "Commerce steaming up the Mississippi.");

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