We started our day with breakfast in the bunk house, and the
day was promising to be a pleasant one, warm, dry and a cloudless sky. If we were going to stick to the official
Adventure Cycling route, we would be headed for Vancleave to stay in a local
camp ground, but that has been closed for several months now. So we are headed instead to Ocean Spring to
stay in Camp Journeys End. At last
night’s map meeting we discussed how best to get there since our maps will not
be of any use. Many different routes
were selected by individuals in the group as “the best” route for them.
Tom and Joe headed out of Poplarville on Route 53, one of
the several options discussed last night.
After riding only a short while they were passed by a lady who yelled
out her window that they had missed their turn.
She pulled her car over on the shoulder a few hundred feet down the road
and waved them down. When they described
how their route was changed due to the lack of camping she was horrified. “You do not want to ride this road” she said. “It is too dangerous.” After discussing the choices with her, Joe
and Tom decided to take back roads, and Neil, who had ridden up as they where
talking, decided to continue on. They were
more than happy to change their route as the first few miles on 53 where loaded
with traffic and there was no shoulder.
It did not feel safe! After turning
off 53 as suggested, the entire ride changed to be more peaceful, relaxing and
with hardly any traffic. Again “a road
angel” saved the day.
The majority of the ride was now on very relaxing country
roads and the weather was perfect.
Dinner tonight was at a great BBQ, The Shed. The food was out of this world.
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