Today we completed five weeks of riding since leaving San Diego on March 8. Somewhat more important to most of us was finishing the ride across Texas (19 days including two for R&R and 1035 miles, just over 1/3 of the total distance).
Today's ride was a remarkably easy 72 miles of mostly flat and some modest gain in elevation after we crossed the Sabine River into Louisiana. The day started with two fast segments going north on US 96 including a stop at the Donut Palace in Buna, TX. Our last culinary stop was a hectic, but tasty lunch in Bon Wier just before leaving Texas.
We overnighted in the Stagecoach Inn in DeRidder. Always a treat to sleep in a bed and have a hot shower with real towels. Bubba treated us to a restaurant meal this evening for our first taste of Cajun food, including a huge platter of crawfish, at Presley's.
A surprise for me was finding myself adjacent to US Army Fort Polk. This is where I spent three miserably hot months enduring basic training in 1970. It was even more surprising to learn that two others of the four of us sharing a table at dinner had also been stationed at Fort Polk in 1970 and 1972. What a coincidence!
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