Day 9

Today we left Vicksburg and headed in to Louisiana. After 116 miles and 11 hours (8:20 were riding) we made it to Ruston, LA. The morning had its fair share of hang-ups though. First we started heading out of Vicksburg and we had to cross the mighty Mississippi River. It turns out that they are doing construction on the bridge that allows bikes, and we would get arrested if we tried to ride on I-20. This created a little dilemma but after about an hour and a half we ended up getting a ride over with a bridge worker in his pickup truck (I didn't count those three miles in our total for today). Also during that hour and a half of waiting I somehow managed to step on a fire ant hill and get fire ants all over and inside my shoe. My ankle is still red from all the little bites and it took a while to get all the ants off my shoe. Also right after we got over the bridge Chris had his hardest fall yet, but don't worry it was still while stopped. After the eventful morning it was smooth sailing to Ruston. Also we determined that drivers in West Monroe hate cyclists and the area between West Monroe and Ruston looked just like northern Michigan and was absolutely beautiful.

Tomorrow we have another long day ahead of us as we head out of Louisiana and make our way to Marshal, TX. Thanks for reading and we're exhausted so it's bed time.

Don & Chris