March 23: Mississippi!

We've officially entered our sixth state: the state of Mississippi! We rode along the Gulf Coast out of New Orleans. The houses lining the coast fascinated us: they are regular houses built up on stilts! Why do you think that people living along the Gulf of Mexico might build houses that look like this?

We experienced a bit of "road magic" today: something out-of-the-ordinary that happens while traveling on a bicycle. A car pulled off the road ahead of us, a man got out... and offered us two ice-cold Coca-Colas! We toasted him from a gravel-and-crushed-up-seashell pull-off overlooking Lake Pontchartrain and the distant city of new Orleans.