When one passion meets another...

AbitaBrewPub17, originally uploaded by M.Prophet Photography.

Anyone who knows me knows that there are a handful of things I truely love and consider to be passions of mine. The top of the list would be my family, my girlfriend Jen and our dogs, riding my motorcycle, taking photographs and a good locally brewed craft beer on tap.

Yesterday was a combination where these were combined on a grande scale.

Working freelance for BeerNW magazine, I was asked to produce the photographs to be included with a travel destination article on Louisiana craft breweries.

A summary of my day? Gas up and hop on my motorcycle, taking back roads from my home, through the Maurepas swamplands to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain (Heiner Brau Brewery, Covington & Abita Brew Pub, Abita Springs for lunch) then across the 24 mile bridge over the lake straight into New Orleans for a stop at Nola Brewery on Tchopitoulas and then over to the Bulldog Bar, home of the 50+ tap bar, all on tap and all pumped with CO2 AND Nitrogen for the best draft beer in town.. Then over to frenchmen to hit up the D.B.A bar but not before stopping in to say hello to my dad and congratulating my brother on (one or two steps short of finalizing) the sale of his renovated house!

Then returning home to Jen and the dogs..

So that basically covered everything on my top list short of seeing my closets friends, who are spread throughout the country, making that simply impossible.

Anyway needless to say.. it was a good day..

I posted a few photos to my flickr if you'd like to check'em out!

m.