Kosciusko 5-11

Quick exit from houston (past a still smoldering house fire) with pitstop for pb sandwiches and corn at Walmart, and 30 miles on the trace before real breakfast at the Trace Way restaurant. Beautiful riding under cloudy skies, cool temps and empty flat roads. Love the trace. Cranked out another 15 miles before roadside nap time under sunny but still cool skies. There's so much undeveloped land here, and so few towns - without big rivers, we surmise there was not much reason to settle this far away from the Mississippi/coasts. Cruised by Mississippi highest point (610 feet),no real swimming spots today as all the water looked swampy/snakey/gatory/catfishy. Got hotter so stopped for great milkshake/smoothie/root beer floats in French camp, and then a HUGE storm blew in very quickly. Hung out at lost gringos Cafe, talking to the owner, waited out the severe stuff then departed in lighter rain for last 20 miles. Aint so bad and overall good timing on our part as there's not much shelter on the trace. Stayed and did hazmat laundry at Econolodge. Dinner at Mexican. 77 easy miles, met our first two other touring cyclists, solo guys heading north.




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