Cheerful Curmudgeon

I will not leave you hanging. My ride from Tunica Resorts, MS to Memphis, TN completed my bicycle tour of the Mississippi River Trail between St. Louis and New Orleans. I made it! With the completion of this tour of the Mississippi River Trail between S.t Louis and New Orleans, paired with my previous tour […]

The ride from Clarksdale, MS to Tunica Resorts, MS was supposed to be a relatively easy day. It is only 2/3 the length of what I had ridden the day before. However, a cold front had arrived and parked on my route, bringing strong headwinds. The ride was brutally hard, coming as it did immediately […]

The ride from Greenville, MS to Clarksdale, MS was the last long ride of my tour of the Mississippi River Trail between St. Louis and New Orleans. Coincidentally, it was the second to land at exactly 77 miles. It was a fortunately-unfortunately day (do you remember that book?). On balance, the day worked out pretty […]

My ride from Roy’s Cabins, MS to Greenville, MS was short, fast, and completely uneventful. Strong tailwinds and level ground let me average 15.1 MPH. I finished the ride in just over an hour and a half 😀 I took a picture because I felt like I oughta. After I was done riding and checked […]

I had mentally prepared myself for a long, boring ride through rural Mississippi from Vicksburg, MS to Roy’s Cabins, MS. As has happened consistently on this trip, America delighted and surprised me with non-stop entertainment and amusement. OK, I exaggerate a tiny bit. There were, indeed, hours and hours of pedaling through vast empty fields. […]

Riding from Port Gibson, MS to Vicksburg, MS was a short 40 miles. The weather forecast was for overcast skies all day. I saw this greyness when I got back onto the Natchez Trace Parkway. I expected nothing better for the rest of the day. On the previous day, I passed a sign at a […]