This being New Orleans, the occasion will be marked with adultbeverages and plenty of food gumbo, red beans and rice, a big pot of crawfish.
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In other words, nobody knows where the trail goes and someone will get lost at some point, especially because there are typically adultbeverages pre-hash, at the halfway point and post-hash.