The road was fairly flat and we had a bit of a tailwind so we rode 101 miles to get to a town with hotels and maybe a bike shop. (Our first fully loaded century this trip!) At mile 65 we were thinking of camping but while we had a Garorade we were being attacked by mosquitos. And that was in town at 2:00 so we nixed the camping idea.
The river delta here is very broad so we aren't always following the shoreline because no roads do that. We have passed numerous oxbow lakes where the cypress trees grow right out in the water.
There aren't many towns because the farms have become so large and mechanized and there isn't work for too many people. We found 3 general stores to stop at and one of them made sandwiches for us and it was a great lunch at 11:00!
The people in MS have all been so nice to us and we were thinking that they really care about bicyclists because they all swerve way around us. Then we found out that they have a well enforced three foot bicycle passing law. It's still nice that they all do it.
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