April 13, 2013
With the weather sunny and warm we had a shorter ride today that allowed time to linger and soak in some of the local landscape. We camped at Louisiana’s Chicot State Park last evening and spent one of the most pleasant nights of our journey. No train whistles, no traffic, just the soft hum of nature around us. The sites were large and level; the sanitary facilities spacious and clean. Chicot is located surrounding a shallow cypress rimmed lake and is well worth visiting even if you are not after one of their legendary largemouth bass. Its cypress groves appear interesting places to canoe or kayak with the chance of glimpsing a lazy alligator sunning itself on a log.
Our next stop was only a relatively short ride of under around 50 miles, a bit shorted than scheduled due to some nasty weather coming in. To get there we passed through the small towns of Evergreen and Cottonport. Both were lush and green with a lazy stream meandering along the roadway through both. It was a pleasant and scenic day to be on a bicycle.