Cumulative Distance: 2,238 mi (3,601 m)
Average Speed: 16.7 mph (26.9 kph)
Climb: 3,895 ft (1,187 m)
Cumulative Climb: 114,362 ft (34,858 m
Flats: 1
Cumulative Flats: 14
There are not a lot of pictures today, so we are dedicating today’s message to the many wonderful people we have met on our trip. We have had help from countless people and virtually everyone has been friendly. America is made up of millions of wonderful people.
Two nights ago Hope, the desk clerk at our Best Western, helped us out in many ways, including doing three loads of laundry, with a little help from us, in the hotel’s commercial machines, because there was no guest laundry facilities.
When we got to St Francisville, LA yesterday the road our hotel was located on was under serious construction, making it all but impossible to get to on bikes. A local police officer came up as we were figuring out what to do, and ended up giving us a police escort through the side streets of town to get us to the motel.
Last night we went out to the rustic Magnolia Café in St. Francisville. It is a mile or two from the Mississippi River and seats about 10 in its small bar and maybe 20 in the inside restaurant, but has large screened porches and open air patios. A local Bluegrass band, Trouvere, which means musicians with day jobs in Cajun French, was playing on the largest screened porch. This caused the night’s crowd to greatly exceed 100. Everyone was friendly and having fun listening to Trouvere’s lyrics, like “Fireworks and cold beer, Americas a great place to live.”
The land we traveled today was dryer and hillier than we expected for Louisiana, and we did not get many pictures. The blooming azaleas continue to be the scenic highlight. These are lining the main street in Jackson, LA.
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