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Day 39 - Mile 1999 - 2081 (82 miles, 375 ft ascent, 143 ft descent)

3/25/2019

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Morganza - Amite City, LA

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Daily Route
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Daily Elevation
Lots of people that stay / live in this RV park leave early in the morning.  I was awoken pretty regularly starting at 5 AM by engines starting and people yelling.  The alarm went off at 7 AM because we have a long day today and are starting out at 8:30 AM.  Not that the alarm woke me because I had been up for a while.

As planned, we were on the road just after 8:30 AM.  Two cool milestones today...one, we will be passing the 2,000 mile point, and second, we will be crossing the Mississippi River around mile 15.  Patrick met us there to take some photos, which is pretty cool.  We crossed on the John James Audubon Bridge.
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About to cross the Mississippi
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Crossed the Mississippi
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On the bridge
Today's route took us on some really nice backroads in Louisiana:
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Pretty yellow fields
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Jackie and Jim riding through lush and green roads
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Mary enjoying the quiet road
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Enjoying the route
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Beautiful trees
Tim and I were riding in front when I looked back and noticed no one was there.  I checked my phone and had a message that someone had a flat.  We were only 2 miles from our scheduled lunch stop, so we continued on.  Mary showed up pretty soon and said that she continued while Bill and Mel turned back to help Jackie with her flat.  About 30 minutes later everyone else showed up and we were back on the road shortly after.  

Our next stop was a Dollar General only 19 miles from the end.  After a short break, Bill and Mel took off a few minutes before the rest.  As we were about to leave, Jim noticed he had a flat.  Seems to be one of those days, but at least he is able to change it in the Dollar General parking lot and not the side of the road.  

To save us about 5 miles of riding today, Patrick is going to meet us at a church on the route and transport us to the RV park which is over 5 miles south (off the route).  The next day we ride is a shorter day, so we can ride the 5 miles back to the church, or Patrick will transport us back.  We arrived to Patrick around 4:30 PM.  Mary, Jackie, and Jim decided to ride to the RV Park.  As the rest of the bicycles were being loaded on the truck, I noticed my rear tire was flat.  Yep...one of those days for sure.  Again, luckily I made it t the truck and can change it at the the RV park instead of the side of the road.

We got to the RV park and set up camp.  Well, most of us did.  Mary's brother is meeting us here and taking her away to a hotel for a couple of nights...lucky her.  Gerard showed up soon after with beer (I think he knows us), so we sat around and talked and drank for a bit until we were all motivated by our stomachs to shower and get ready for dinner.  Since it was a long day and Mary's brother is visiting, we decided to go out for dinner.  We went to The Boston Restaurant in Amite City.  It wound up being pretty good.  We returned to the RV park around 9:30 PM and everyone went straight to their beds / tents / hotels.

Tomorrow is an off day, so no alarms will be set tonight.  I plan on sleeping in till the heat of the sun wakes me.
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