Category: Alabama Mississippi Trips
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Cycling up to Meridian, Mississippi; April 24-25, 2021
Enterprise, Mississippi (population 496) is twenty-something miles south of the larger Meridian MS. Both towns are about halfway up the state, two hundred miles northeast of New Orleans. Thunderstorms were predicted as Lyman and I circled in my Ford Escape Hybrid with two bicycles in the back. We needed a place to park for twenty-four…
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Memphis TN, March 16-18, 2025
I like trains. My relationship with Amtrak is like that with a mythical demented relative. You love them, you nourish them, but it is exhausting and you sometimes silently wish it would all just end. There is a daily Amtrak called “The City of New Orleans” that runs New Orleans to Memphis to Chicago, taking…
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Jackson, Mississippi (with a Stick in my Hand); May 9-11, 2024
I had never been to Jackson, Mississippi but because of one song “Stick in my Hand” I have spent many years thinking about the place. It’s a great song but is very tongue-in-cheek and gives no details about Jackson at all. I have been married to Tootie for just over forty years. We met in…
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Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast, Feb. 2022 and Feb. 14-18, 2024
Two years ago in February of 2022 my friend Lyman and I departed on what was supposed to be a multi-day bicycle tour from New Orleans to the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast. In the afternoon of our first day Lyman had an “accident” near Slidell LA. He was lucky he wasn’t killed. We had…
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