Florida Boulevard (US 190) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This may be one of the ugliest urban places in the city, and representative of marginal entrepreneurialism common to many places around the world that I’ve visited. The Florida Boulevard thorough-fare runs from the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge to the Mississippi-Louisiana state line. What interests me most about this strip is the sense that I’m back in Libreville, Gabon, Delhi/Rishikesh, India, and Harlesdin, England. In these places, like this strip, I’m the Western foreigner. And that feels good. There are many communities along Florida Boulevard: Black American, Latin American, African, Middle-eastern, and Vietnamese. The businesses include those dominant human activities one sees wherever one travels. They center on automobiles (used cars, repair shops, tire shops), food (markets, restaurants), religion (Christian, Buddhist), apparel (clothing, wigs, nails, etc). This interest is turning into an ongoing project.