Category: Mississippi
-
Rocky Springs, MS to Clinton, MS
Campgrounds without water, electric, or bathrooms don’t exactly draw the party crowds, so the humans at Rocky Springs were plenty quiet. But while we were trying to sleep, some creatures (owls?) were hooting at each other at high volume, and later on a pack of coyotes celebrated a kill. Overall the Trace has felt relatively…
-
Natchez, MS to Rocky Springs, MS
Following on our unexpected (but entirely necessary) rest day, we were up at 5:15am, to the motel breakfast (which thankfully opened at) 6, and on the road just after 7 (even while repairing Rett’s completely flat front tire which I just discovered this morning!). The main goal was to beat the day’s heat, and such…
-
Meadville, MS to Natchez, MS
The temperature only dropped to 62 last night, 22 degrees warmer than yesterday, and warm enough that we kept the rainfly doors open all night. We were up at 7am, and even though we had a shorter day today, the breeze kicking up reminded me that we might have some annoying winds, so I wanted…
-
McComb, MS to Meadville, MS
Rett was pretty chilly all night. I’m not sure if elevating the tent on a wooden platform makes it feel colder or warmer vs. putting on the ground as God intended; I suppose it depends if the air temperature is colder than the ground temperature? And since highs have been in the 70s here for…
-
Bay St. Louis, MS to New Orleans (East), LA
Today we needed to cross the Pearl River, which defines the border between Mississippi and Louisiana. The obvious route is to continue west on US-90, but when I plotted the general route to New Orleans weeks ago, the routing algorithm refused to let me go that way. Huh? The next crossing is 6 miles north,…