Days 19 & 20- “Way down Yonder in the land of Cotton…”
September 29th, 2006First, thanks to my wife Kathy for posting yesterday’s brief description while we were out of internet range at the casino in Lula, MS. Yesterday we crossed from Arkansas into Mississippi over the Mississippi river and immediately exited from the bridge to the large casino and hotel. Usually our PAC Tour group takes over the small hotels we stay at nightly but last night we were definitely ’small fish’ at this casino hotel. It was an interesting contrast to see our trailers, vans, and bicycles sitting in the middle of the casino parking lot! Many of us ate at the HUGE buffet at the casino and we definitely re-fueled with all types of foods. I didn’t hear of any big casino winners on today’s ride- I think most people ate and went to sleep.
Today’s 116 mile, 1884 ft route from Lula to Winona was fairly straight forward. We did paceline work most of the day with our group growing from about 6 riders to about 15 at times. AGAIN, the weather was PERFECT with temperature rising to about 80 degrees and light winds, although we could feel a headwind at times. Lunch again was the highlight of the day and occurred late in the day so we cruised in the last 30 miles with one last sag stop. Tomorrow’s route takes us 130 miles to our last stop in MS at Meridian. It’s starting to sink in that we’re getting close as we’ve started our last week of riding.
Much of Arkansas and Mississippi showed us LOTS and LOTS of cotton fields and timber farms with cotton and timber trucks passing us often on our route. Loose cotton dotted the roadside like leaves fallen from trees in other parts of the country. Below are some photos taken from both days:
Cotton field on left and ‘block’ of cotton ready to be trucked away.
Mississippi River and bridge from Arkansas into Mississippi.
Mike and Nancy Myers on their tandem- they are REAL veterans of PAC Tour with multiple trans-continental trips and other long distance events. On the right is Brett from Rhode Island and Anne from NY.
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