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| Our KOA campsite |
We took a real pounding from the rain last night and into this morning. It didn’t stop until 10:30 am or so, and I was concerned that by starting so late that I might not be able to make it to the $90 Motel 6 in Bay City St. Louis MS before dark.
True, I could have done a super short day and have gotten a motel in the Big Easy. But rooms there were priced even higher than usual ($300 for the New Orleans Motel 6) today because the city’s Jazz festival is underway and rooms are priced at a premium.
Fortunately, the prospect of getting benighted empowered me, and I got to Bay St. Louis by 6:30 pm, averaging 12 mph over the 77.8 miles, record time for this aging hombre.
It rained so hard last night that all my gear got soaked, and it’s drying in my room tonight.
It could have been worse. A German motorcyclist, who was camped a couple of sites away from ours, was flooded inside his tent under six inches of water.
Today I said adios to Dave when we went our separate ways in the Big Easy’s French Quarter.
The Motel 6 was OK for the price, and it was conveniently located across the street from a Waffle House. But the motel’s water had a brownish color to it. It actually smelled like sewage and tasted funky.
In the morning, the manager gave me one bottle of drinking water after I asked about it. I bought more water later to refill my bike bottles.
DM: 77.8 miles; TM: 2,422.9
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| Soaked |
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| Big Easy |
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