Oct 28 Day 8 after Di

As there are no pictures from yesterday here are a couple today.
Dave still talks about the Kudsu so here is his picture of me coming up the final part of the trail.

Here is a picture of the Mississippi from the crossing yesterday into West Memphis

Here the actual view of the bridge from a Bike.

Enough stuff from yesterday. 

This morning I was really upset when my stocking tore apart while I finally getting them up.  I am too upset about the lost just the 10 minutes I spent getting them almost on and then having to start all over again.  Breakfast was at a Sonics drive in resturant as the town did not a better spot to eat. 

With the wind behind we covered the 35 miles to Hellena AK before lunch time and the down town section was still closed so rode around and looked at the all the old homes.  Some of them were cool but if you missed the high class area by a couple of blocks and you were in the less acceptable parts of the town.  Here is a picture of one of the nicer homes.

Dave and I discussed our options for the day and we finally decided to move on even though it commited us to moving at least another 30 miles.  So off we went to the US 49 and crossed over to the river on the bridge below.

So we kept up the rate and finished the ride into Clarksdale MS covering a total distance of 61 miles.  With the wind behind us covering the distance much easier.  Most of the scenery was a repeat of flatland as yesterday.  The only exceptions were in the town where the challenge was find areas where Dave would be "willing to stop to tie his shoe", and some hills that where the challenge was to get my breath back. 

In Clarksdale when Dave finally found a Package store where he felt we could stop to resupply the bourbon whiskey.  We asked the seller about Hotels and Motels his parting words were, "don't leave anything outside that expect to find 5 minutes later".  The drivers are best discribed as crazed fools, Dave addes some other discribtors in front of the crazed.  Only two of the cars did I really want to catch and pound on the roof.  Once we stopped and tried to walk across the street and twice cars cut David off while pushing his bike. I suppect that the rules of "driving for Al" changed to include some partial points for grazing Dave. 

Thankful for Today
The wind blowing from the Northwest is something to be thankful for.  But I was not looking foreward the bridge crossing.  When we got the enterance the traffic was heavy and the cars did not yeild much of the right lane to us.  But at the top the road became a one lane for consturction.  The none driving lane was blocked off and Dave and I took that all the way across with our own lane and I was happy and thankful for that.

Love and Kisses to all and to all good night.
Allan and Dave