Frog Hollow Campground, Grenada, MS. Up at 7:00. Clear skies – no rain. Lots of dew and condensation; all of the tents and bikes are wet. By campground standards the shower facilities are OK, by Wax CG stds, they are not as nice; mostly painted particle board, clean and lots of hot water – our requirements are few.
I spent quite a bit of time this morning trying to post to the blog. Google kept telling me that the page couldn’t be found. Got a better connection in the park rec. room and was able to post the text and pictures. This is a lot easier from a Ethernet connection.
10:30 on the road. Gas 3.7 gals, 932 trim miles.
Breakfast at Shoney’s in Grenada. Very polite and courteous staff. Chris has the last of the B’fast bar, Dan and Ray order off the menu: country fried steak breakfast.
11:40 back on the road. Our direction is to head west toward the Mississippi river and then turn south to follow the river through Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge and towards the Big Easy.
1:30 pm Anguilla, MS. Gas 2.9 gals, ODO 1057.2.
Vicksburg, MS. Stopped to take some pictures of the riverboats and look at Old Man River.
For some reason, the Zumo kept trying to navigate us away from the Natchez Trace parkway. We made a couple of U-turns. Glad we did. This is a beautiful drive. Excellent road conditions, not traffic (I think we only passed 4 cars in the opposite direction), and only overtook one pickup about 4 miles before the end of the parkway.
5:28, Natchez, MS. Finally found some motorcycle shops; Ray is looking for a cruise control, Dan needs a tinted helmet visor, Chris looks at the gloves. I’m developing a weird tan: two spots on the back of my hands where the gloves are open. No luck on the cruise control, but Dan finds a replacement ‘Cramp Buster’ for the throttle.
Definitely have to compliment the folks of Mississippi – outstanding highways.
Just before the LA state line, Ray is leading, Chris has to make an ‘unscheduled’ rest stop in an abandoned rest area. Ray doesn’t see us turn in and drives into Louisiana before realizing he’s alone. He makes a U-turn, doesn’t see us, makes another U-turn and finds us. Advanced scouting tells us that the road conditions in Louisiana aren’t as nice as Mississippi; I guess they still must be spending all their money cleaning up from the storms.
Got slightly separated again looking for dinner and a campground – thank god for Cell Phones. Again, Ray’s advanced scouting finds us a great place for dinner.
9:15 – Baton Rouge, LA. Dinner at Burnetts Cajon. Got there 15 minutes before close, but the service was really friendly and the cook really liked our adventure.
10:15 – Baton Rouge East KOA for the night. Nobody in the office so we found an open RV site, parked the bikes and set up camp.
1300 miles on the trip ODO. 400 miles today.
I spent quite a bit of time this morning trying to post to the blog. Google kept telling me that the page couldn’t be found. Got a better connection in the park rec. room and was able to post the text and pictures. This is a lot easier from a Ethernet connection.
10:30 on the road. Gas 3.7 gals, 932 trim miles.
Breakfast at Shoney’s in Grenada. Very polite and courteous staff. Chris has the last of the B’fast bar, Dan and Ray order off the menu: country fried steak breakfast.
11:40 back on the road. Our direction is to head west toward the Mississippi river and then turn south to follow the river through Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge and towards the Big Easy.
1:30 pm Anguilla, MS. Gas 2.9 gals, ODO 1057.2.
Vicksburg, MS. Stopped to take some pictures of the riverboats and look at Old Man River.For some reason, the Zumo kept trying to navigate us away from the Natchez Trace parkway. We made a couple of U-turns. Glad we did. This is a beautiful drive. Excellent road conditions, not traffic (I think we only passed 4 cars in the opposite direction), and only overtook one pickup about 4 miles before the end of the parkway.
5:28, Natchez, MS. Finally found some motorcycle shops; Ray is looking for a cruise control, Dan needs a tinted helmet visor, Chris looks at the gloves. I’m developing a weird tan: two spots on the back of my hands where the gloves are open. No luck on the cruise control, but Dan finds a replacement ‘Cramp Buster’ for the throttle.
Definitely have to compliment the folks of Mississippi – outstanding highways.
Just before the LA state line, Ray is leading, Chris has to make an ‘unscheduled’ rest stop in an abandoned rest area. Ray doesn’t see us turn in and drives into Louisiana before realizing he’s alone. He makes a U-turn, doesn’t see us, makes another U-turn and finds us. Advanced scouting tells us that the road conditions in Louisiana aren’t as nice as Mississippi; I guess they still must be spending all their money cleaning up from the storms.
Got slightly separated again looking for dinner and a campground – thank god for Cell Phones. Again, Ray’s advanced scouting finds us a great place for dinner.
9:15 – Baton Rouge, LA. Dinner at Burnetts Cajon. Got there 15 minutes before close, but the service was really friendly and the cook really liked our adventure.
10:15 – Baton Rouge East KOA for the night. Nobody in the office so we found an open RV site, parked the bikes and set up camp.
1300 miles on the trip ODO. 400 miles today.
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