by nickpannaman | May 21, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
70 miles ridden – 3100 feet climbed – temperature 27C. Today we passed the halfway point – 882 miles. We would have celebrated but we were trying to out-run rain clouds which I am pleased to say we did. The first 40 miles was constant rolling hills...
by nickpannaman | May 19, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
93 miles ridden – 1800 feet climbed – temperature 29C. Today was long, hot, brutal but interesting. It started with the Royal Wedding which started at 06:00 here and coincided with breakfast. I was first there, got the channel changed on the TV and most of...
by nickpannaman | May 18, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
69 Miles ridden – 1950 feet climbed – temperature 22C Today was all about being chased. The first and more obvious issue was storms. It was quite cloudy when we got up and the weather forecast showed that there was a collection of storm systems all around...
by nickpannaman | May 17, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
80 miles ridden – 2400 feet climbed – temperature 25C. Today we were trying to get to Ripley before expected thunderstorms. Although it was much cooler, the humidity made things a bit uncomfortable as our absolutely sodden clothes did not dry the way they...
by nickpannaman | May 17, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
0 miles ridden – 0 feet climbed – temperature 31C We had a radical sort to the day with a lazy, late breakfast at 7am and didn’t leave hotel until 09:00 – it felt very weird but pretty nice. First on the list was a walk downtown to the National...
