April 10, 2018
The sun came out today to welcome our departure from the Lone Star State. It was a nice change from the gloom of the past three days. A short 50 mile ride was ahead as well as fairly flat roads. Few of us cared that the ever present headwind would still be in our faces. Our destination was Merryville, Louisiana and a catered meal by the Merryville Historical Society. All in all a relaxing day.
As we said goodbye to Texas we passed through the unluckily named dot on the map called Bleakwood. Judging by the one closed business at this intersection town, the un-optimistic name seems to be a self fulling prophesy.
Shortly after our optimism was renewed in the form of meeting a fellow bicycler on her own epic journey across the country and all the way to Glacier. Ann is doing her trek self supported and is going strong. She has a blog chronicling her adventure at yipathon/wordpress.com.
Finally, the big moment of the day came when I crossed the Sabine River and left Texas in my rear view mirror, entering Louisiana. Nothing against Texas but I was ready for a change.
