Waveland, MISSISSIPPI - Wed 4/4

We made it to Mississippi!
This morning we awoke to thunder, lightning and rain.  We began making plans to stay another day in New Orleans.  Then at 10:30 the rain suddenly quit.  Check out time was 11 o'clock so we packed quickly and hit the road.

It turned out to be a beautiful day for cycling.  Overcast and not too hot and it never rained again.  We rode through the French Quarter, down the Moonwalk (along the Mississippi River), and through a neighborhood hard hit by Hurricane Katrina.  We saw a paddlewheel riverboat heading down the Mississippi.  I picked up a couple more spare inner tubes at a bike shop.  (I have used 3 of the 4 I started with.)

After leaving New Orleans we traveled through Louisiana swamps.  Then we entered Mississippi and traveled through Mississippi swamps.  Once when we stopped for photos we got attacked by mosquitoes. The houses are all up on tall stilts.  Most have creative signs.

Miles: 59.6  Average: 12.2

Photos:
Entering Mississippi
Bayou house on stilts
Bayou house sign
Bayou houses
Swamp

The truth from Ruth:
There was a Walmart near our hotel, and I bought a pair of capris.  The jeans I've been wearing when off the bike feel so sticky in this humidity.  I'm excited to have something cooler to wear now.