Day 4

Tuesday, 14 Jun 2016
Natchez, MS to Talullah, LA
74.2 miles, 5h35m, 13.3 mph
Elapsed Time: 6h24m, Max speed: 32.5mph
Total Climbing: 141ft, Max elevation: 219ft
Total mileage: 312.6


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Day 4: Natchez, MS to Tallulah, LA. 74 miles. Out of Mississippi and its crappy roads and back into Louisiana and its good roads
and uninspiring scenery. This is a bit of a historic moment. Until now I had crossed the Mississippi River on bicycle 28 times on 28 bridges.
After this I had crossed it 29 times on 28 bridges. I crossed this same bridge in 2008. Believe me, I tried to figure a way around it.


I unexpectedly stumbled across the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, LA. It was closed. No Delta Music on Tuesdays.
They have this little walk of fame out front. The televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has a star. Probably not because of his
contributions to Delta Music, but maybe because he's from Ferriday.


Day 4 scenery. I believe those are soybeans. Miles of soybeans. Yep.


A reminder that just because you build it doesn't mean they are going to come.
But somebody will probably cut the grass.


If you build a giant mailbox, somebody will take a picture of it.


Balmoral Mounds. Three Indian mounds arranged in a triangle. With all the land around here, they had to
build the highway right through the middle of them.


I had a tailwind all morning. Then it rained for a few minutes and it turned into a headwind.


Then it rained real good. So good that my iPod cut out. I figured the battery ran down. But later when I tried to charge it, it got really hot.
So, I'm deeply concerned about my iPod. Deeply concerned.


Oh. And after that I had a tailwind all the way into Talullah. Here's the courthouse with the standard confederate soldiers memorial.


Here's me getting a picture of Linda riding up for a change. I told her I'd be there at 2pm. Amazingly I arrived at 1:55 (I'm usually
not that accurate). She got there at 2pm on the dot.


From there we drove to the Poverty Point World Heritage Site to look at the mounds.



And then into Vicksburg for dinner at a rooftop restaurant.


I was so hungry that I couldn't take a picture before I started eating my Chicken and Waffle entree. Apparently I also couldn't
wait to finish taking the picture before I got back to my beer. I've always been a multi-tasker.


Beer:Southern Prohibition Susie B, Heineken


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