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Day 10: Cleveland to Clarksdale

he hotel had a decent breakfast, and we set off not too late today, about 9:30 or so. We had a relatively short ride today along old 61, going through the towns of Renova, Merigold, Mound Bayou, Winstonville, Shelby, Duncan, and Alligator before getting to lunch (and our stop for the day) at Clarksdale. We…

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Day 9: Greenville to Cleveland

We had been keeping an eye on conditions along the Mississippi for a couple of months after the bad storms in the upper midwest earlier in the year. Our concerns grew as we saw all the swollen rivers we crossed in the beginning of our trip, and were confirmed when we saw that the lower…

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Day 5, April 25: Rest Day

No alarm and a late breakfast were followed by trying to find a bike shop to get some replacement tubes and other things. After Ubering to a couple of places, we got what we needed, and John went back to the Eldorado for his scheduled massage while I walked over to pick up the business…

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Day 3, April 23: Lufkin to Carthage

Breakfast at La Quinta was light-years beyond the previous day: dual wafflemakers (including a Texas-shaped one), fresh fruit, juice, pastries…much happier. Much sadder when realized John had another flat. Examining his tire, we found a piece of glass that was deeply embedded but hadn’t gone all the way through to the liner, a couple of…

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Day 2, April 22: Shepherd to Lufkin

The Executive Inn and Suites, being the only public accommodations in Shepherd, are certainly not trying very hard to prevent other entrants into the market. There was only one washcloth in our two-bed room, or so we thought: we found the other one – which had apparently been left unwashed for some time, judging by…

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Day 1, April 21: Houston to Shepherd

Joe, being the procrastinator extraordinaire, didn’t start packing until after church. Amazingly, got it done in time, but then on the way to pick up John he discovered he’d forgotten his phone…doh! We were therefore a few minutes late to Discovery Green, but happy to see friends and family there to send us off. Joe’s…

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