This is a
natural continuation last year's ride from Washington, DC to
Chattanooga, TN down the Blue Ridge Parkway. I plan to pick up exactly
where I left and ride to New Orleans, mostly on the Natchez Trace
Parkway.
It should
take me about two days to get from Chattanooga to the northern end of
the Parkway near Franklin, TN. My wife will be with me for those first
couple days. Then she will return to Maryland and I will head on down
the Trace. Depending on how things go, I may take a side trip to
Vicksburg. From Natchez to New Orleans I plan to follow the Mississippi
River Trail, but if I'm short on time I'll take a more direct route. If
I get done early enough--and if I am not running amok in New Orleans--I
hope to ride as far down the Mississippi delta as the roads allow.