What a day we had yesterday . A fair following wind and we covered 85 miles - the most we've ever done in a day.
The night before we were in Linden where the owner of Linden Inn did us numerous kindnesses including lending us his car to get us to the library - and our emails - just before it closed. Simply handed me his keys within minutes of seeing me for the first time.
Left there before 7 and in anticipation of impending ` weather ` - a severe storm apparently - we thought if we could get a decent meal in Epes we might make it the whole way to Aliceville before the storm broke. Horror of horrors the only resaturaunt in Epes , and realistically the only chance of a meal anywhere - had closed a few months ago . To our rescue came Becky Robertson , a local of Epes who found us sitting forlornly outside the post office and drove us 10 miles to Livingston where we took in the necessary restorative calories while our bikes were protected digently by the Epes postmistress ! See pics .. Thank you Becky for saving us from spending a wet night in a tent . We'd never have made it to Aliceville without you .
Now in Aliceville - home to 4000 German POW's in World War 2 . They were pretty comfortable from all accounts . If the hospitality we have received in this lovely part of the world is anything to go by , I can believe it .
The joys of bike touring for us have been meeting just wonderful people along the way .
Off now to Columbus . Into Mississippi - major milestone. Then north towards the Tennessee border. NW wind forecast though - bad news.
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