Day 12 - Marksville, LA to Oberlin, LA

Of f the bike! and feel great! Thank you for every ones prayers and encouragement!

I forget to share something in my blog yesterday.

You see the RV meets us at mile 15, mile 50 and then the stopping spot everyday. It normally gets to the final destination long before we do. Yesterday since Pops (Jerry Stutzman) rode on the tandem in the morning he kicked back in the RV in the afternoon. Long story short, Pops ended up selling 10 t-shirt in a little 2 stop light town in Louisiana. It was great! What was even better was this morning when we were pulling out, another women flagged him down and wanted to buy a shirt. The icing on the cake was when we were riding out of town a car pulled up and honked and the women in the car were wearing there POPsRide shirts! It was really cool.

We pulled out of town and had some issues navigating some unmarked local roads. We ended up asking a local lady that was driving by, she then flagged down a gentlemen in another vehicle that was more then happy to help us because he saw us yesterday riding in. As the man and our SAG drivers were looking at the maps the women quickly asked if she could pray with us, never wanting to turn away prayer - she prayed for our safety and to be able to complete this journey! It was great. We had another women stop by and wanted to know how long we were going to be there so she could go get her camera and take a picture with us. We kindly told here we would be leaving shortly. Then the local PD pulled up, we had a little traffic jam on our hands now. After a few minutes it cleared out and the officer helped us get back on track.

Once we got our route worked out we headed out of town and out to the sticks again. Louisiana is different out of town, there is a lot of water. We actually spent most of the day riding by craw fish farms.

We stopped for lunch and climbed in the RV and cooled off. Something we try to do everyday at lunch is cool off, and take our shoes off. It's Amazing what 30-40 minutes with your shoes off and cooling down can do for you. The afternoon was better then the morning because the wind calmed down and stopped blowing us all over the road. We cruised through some more craw fish field and rolled into our final destination for the day.

We did ride upon another cyclist riding the same route we are on from east to west. His name is Roy, he is actually staying at the same Inn that we are at tonight. I think we are inviting him to dinner. He is riding solo and is having a rough go the last couple days. The roads have been rough and the wind has been strong - not a fun combination. Here is a picture of Roy. My hats off to time and his journey.

In other news our new friend Tony recently completed his journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic! Congratulations Tony! You rock! Glad we were able to meet for a few minutes on the side of the US90. I hope our paths cross again sometime. Check out Tony's website and his final blog about his solo trip cross the US. http://www.jacksonvilleorbust.co.uk/

We just got the word that dinner is ready! When you ride as many miles as we are riding right now you can't wait to consume calories to replenish the thousands we burned today.

Tomorrow we cross into Texas! Another state closer to our goal! Unbelievable!

Have a great Friday everyone!!!