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The weather could not have been better, and the road surfaces were fantastic as we road through Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge, and later approached the water front community with a shipbuilding industry and beautiful riverfront homes. There we approached Pascagoula, MS, where we had an extremely dicey bridge crossing on the first of two

After a 101 mile ride yesterday, this relatively short and very efficient ride felt great. There were some nice rolling hills and excellent surfaces that we handled very well in a paceline after having a long lunch with Carol and Julie at the Subway (2nd day in row) in Poplarville, MS. I learned that Jackson,

I believe this was the easiest effort I ever had on a century ride. Smooth payment, reasonably favorable winds, and only some modest hills the last 25 miles. The weather was also very pleasant. This was definitely less effort than the 80 plus mile rides coming to Baton Rouge. I don’t have many pictures to

Visited LSU Sawyer Art and theater, walked by the state Capitol walk (Doug and Carol later took an elevator to the top for a great city view I regret missing), while Steve, Julie and I took a too long walk to Elsie’s famous Pies for lunch and pie. Realizing it was Rest Day, we took

Today’s ride was mostly as expected with some short distances of rough frontage roads to a busy Hwy 190 we also road. We had two major milestones today; we passed 2000 miles in total tour distance and crossed over to the east of Mississippi. What continued our delight was the amazing courtesy and safety of

This ride went as planned as our second consecutive day exceeding 88 miles. We are witnessing that Louisiana motorists are very courtesy to us, and the road surfaces today were better than foretold by other southern tier riders, with exceptions at the end of the route and in our destination town of Opelousas. The Steve’s

Today was a milestone day as we completed riding across the entire state of Texas, which we entered on March 23rd in El Paso. I photographed my Cateye odometer at both ends to determine our route across Texas was 1065 miles to cross the Sabine River on the border to Louisiana, which will exceed 1/3

Today was not about any the scenery, but some perfect road surfaces. Each morning we evaluate the day’s effort my hill profile and wind direction, but what is also a big help in conserving effort and maintaining a good pace is the road surface. Texas has better road surfaces than our previous states, and that

Today had the most pleasant weather on the tour so far: sunny with temperatures in the mid 60s and very light tail winds. We were all delighted to do another routine 70-something miles with a reasonable effort for the third day since leaving Austin. Along the way we saw some interesting sights and a great

Today we had invigorating cool temperatures of high 40’s to low 60’s, but a sunny day with amazing views of expansive carpets of wildflower. Before our lunch break we struggled riding in a pace line, but after discussing the situation at our long lunch break in at a restaurant in Brenham, we established a cohesive