Mary is an avid reader and has long been part of a local book club. Since we rode today relatively near Oxford, Mississippi, home of this state’s most famous author William Faulkner, I thought it would be fun to form a specialized book club and compare notes about Faulkner novels as we cycled. Yet another good idea that did not pan out. Kevin apparently thought I was joking when I assigned him “Absalom, Absalom!”. Serge made it a full 14 pages into “The Sound and the F

That was the critique of yesterday’s blog from a long-time reader. Yes folks, it was a tough day to be a blogger. First thing in the morning, I was accosted by an angry mob of six highly educated cyclists who said that I threw them under the bus in yesterday’s post when I mentioned that they seemed oblivious to area history. Although they claimed that they were indeed interested in history, after breakfast all of them blew past Bayou Pierre which is the area where Andrew

Greetings from way down south in the land of cotton. This is the floral arrangement in our B&B in Vicksburg, Mississippi: Today we cycled 45 miles along the Natchez Trace Parkway, starting in Natchez which is a Mississippi River town: : The Natchez Trace Parkway was created by President Roosevelt during the Depression as a partial payback to Mississippi Senator Pat Harrison, the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee and a key figure who helped pass Social Security legislati