Author: Audrey Laffely

This is an incredibly hard post for us to write.  We have had an amazing bicycle trip to this point: supporting and spreading the word about Can Do MS, a wonderful charity, interacting with and learning from great people all across the country, experiencing life in small town America, and seeing some of America’s incredible landscapes…

Today we zeroed with Audrey’s Aunt and Uncle on Mother’s Day.  We all went out to celebrate this morning with Cracker Barrel breakfast, and after a good meal came back home to relax.  This afternoon we took a wonderful boat ride on their pontoon boat down the lake under an awesome steel truss bridge and by the…

Scott and I made it the 74 miles to Witches Dance and, what a 74 miles it was. Now, as most of you now there was very severe weather that hit just north of Scott and I. Some of the people we have been talking to had said that Natchez Trace was the only way…

Today we made it over 60 miles from the Timberland RV Park near Jackson Mississippi to a campsite near Kosciusko Mississippi. Today was a very nice day as we made some adjustments to our bicycles, started enjoying the brand new tires we just swapped out on our new wheels, and had a relatively flat day.…

Ok, so I know that a person biking across the United States is probably less than 1 percent of your yearly business, but you could at least treat us like a customer. Maybe I think too highly of myself and Scott, but I don’t think we are terribly difficult clients to please; all we ask…

Subtitle: Biking a tightrope, or: More adventures in off route biking. We were up early today after not much sleep last night.  Thankfully there was no rain last night or this morning, so we woke up dry.  With the choice of over 80 miles to Natchez via the Adventure Cycling Route, or 60 miles via main roads,…

Yesterday after Dave dropped us off we booked into the 3V Tourist Court.  It’s one of the oldest continuously operating tourist courts, and we are staying in one of the rooms that’s on the National Register of Historic Places and has been operating since the 1930s. It’s an interesting set up with each room being an…

We are in the town of Donaldsonville LA today a total of 72 miles off our route. We are very excited to see my friend Dave and to have a few days of rest.  Last night was interesting, both Scott and I didn’t sleep very well. The campsites or RV parks here that are privately…

Today started innocently enough, we got going a little bit late, but not too bad.  Out of Oberlin we hit the rice fields!  That was very exciting for me since I’ve never seen them before. We saw fields in all stages, from not yet planted, to just planted, to being in process of being flooded, to already…

Today we made it 57 miles into Oberlin LA! This was a relatively fun ride. The terrain was flat to rolling and there was a shoulder almost all the way. The only place where there wasn’t a shoulder was where a bridge narrowed the road. The Shoulder did, however, have a lot of grass growing…