Happy Easter today and Passover earlier this week. Huge storm all last night but it cleared for us to cycle this morning. Saw a lot of pine plantations today and no crawfish ponds. N/NE wind was not too bad in our W/NW direction, even with a tailwind a few times when we turned south (!), and Sunday morning always has less traffic. For a SW Louisiana highway kind of day, the shoulders were mostly wide and clean! 403.8 miles in LA & approx 3500‘ elevation gain. [I sat out one 75 mile day and cut short another day by 12 miles.]
Good bye SE U.S. – a little more than 2 weeks and 1085.7 miles – Florida ✅, Alabama✅, Mississippi✅, Louisiana✅ Now on to Texas for more than 2 weeks of cycling and 1000 miles or 1/3 of the trip.
Texas
- nickname: The Lone Star State
- bird: mockingbird
- flower: bluebonnet (which is actually lupine)
- motto: “friendship” – and every TX driver on this first day was very courteous!
Hope it lasts 1000 miles!
Finished the day: 88.6 miles 1306’
TransAm Cycle 3.0 
A turtle and a crawfish sighting! My kind of day
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And live ones at that!! 👍
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