As we crossed over to AR today we were on our first bridge over the Mississippi with a separate lane. To use it, however, we had to walk our bikes up the grassy embankment on the TN side and down the embankment on the AR side. We then had to ride a ways on a gravel /dirt road before we got to a real road. This was because we couldn't ride along I-55. It was a safe crossing so we had time to take a picture but the whole thing took an hour.
Arkansas has been quite pleasant to ride through. The MRT is marked and the roads had either little traffic or great shoulders. It is also fairly flat and the people are very friendly. I had a flat tire and an AT&T truck driver pulled over to see if we needed help.
The main crop is sorghum now but some areas are still cotton. We only saw one cornfield and it didn't look too good.
Road kill has been changing, too. In the north we saw mainly raccoons and deer and then some squirrels. Possums started appearing in KY, along with frogs and now it's armadillos and frogs.
I'm hoping it never gets to snakes and alligators.
I just looked at the map, the river is going to get pretty squiggly now, hold on tight!
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