DAY 6 Summary

let's start with the good stuff....this was a 3 state day....good bye Mississippi....I was called honey, darling and sugar more times then one can imagine.....people friendly and polite....hello and goodbye to Alabama....a short but beautiful part of the Trace including the Tennessee River....hello Tennessee....already got a dose of the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.....more to come no doubt.....

rained very hard the first 60 miles.....not too bad the next 50....then mostly clouds with brief sunshine....pretty windy but it didn't hurt or help....just pushed me around a bit....coolest temp so far....

it seems every ride has a day that is an unexpected brute....this day was that....I miss calculated the miles....went Trace mile post 230 to mile post 370 for a 140 mile day....forgot to add 4 miles from the motel in Houston MS, the 10 miles to the motel in Waynesboro TN and  6 more going off the Trace for food and water....combine with rain and steeper longer rollers and there you go.....I had to dig deep today....

DAY 6 miles 160. Total miles 862