We have no Internet access tonight so this post will be a day late.
We slept in until 6 AM since today is a relatively short day with only about 48 miles.
As we were preparing to leave the hotel drive, we were chatting with some other guests - a family on their way to a graduation. The older woman told us it is cheating to carry all that stuff looking like you are camping out when you are really staying in a nice hotel like this one. Well, tonight we are using the camping gear. While the campground is nice, a little air conditioning would go a long way after our hot ride today. A shower would be nice too.
We didn't have any problems getting out of the Jackson metro area -- probably due to the section of the road that is closed to vehicular traffic. For eight glorious miles we had the parkway to ourselves except for a few
other cyclists.
We got to chat with two local women cyclists on the bike path in Ridgeland. They took our photo and hopefully it will end up here.
At one rest stop we met a young man on his last training ride before leaving for a coast-to-coast ride with a group called PUSH to raise awareness and funds for people with disabilities.
There's a group of guys camped near us who started riding in New Orleans a few days ago and are riding north. We didn't see any other bicycle tourists today. We've been watching for Hoppy, the man from South Africa but so far haven't seen him again even though we are going the same direction.
Today's route didn't have any town stops for meeting local folks.
The ride was hot today. I don't know what the temperature was but it was hot and humid and there was a
headwind. Too much of the ride today was in the sun. We're hoping for more shade tomorrow on our last leg into Natchez.
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| The view above our tent |
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| Setting up camp for the last night on the Trace. |
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