If I do this right, this blog will live for just over a week. I hope that it will cover the 444 miles that three
friends and I are riding on the Natchez Trace Parkway, from Sunday October 2 to
Friday October 7, 2016.
I was inspired to organize the trip when I read this beautiful description of the ride by journalist Andrea Sachs in the Washington Post. Her writing stirred something in my belly and I have been anticipating the trip ever since.
When we had a group of 4 riders, Randy Fought’s excellent NatchezTraceTravel.com website made the actual planning pretty easy. Randy is – like most of the people I have
talked with as part of this process – exceedingly polite and welcoming and
genuinely interested in sharing this part of the country with others. I am grateful for the resource that he has
created.
I have never done a single ride over 65 miles, much less 6
days of 74 miles each. So maybe when each day is through I will choose beers and Advil and bed over travel blogging. But let’s find out.
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