G.A.S.P.

I spent time this morning (while riding) thinking about the recent lack of great scenery and how this was impacting my mental outlook.  I decided that I needed to designate “officially” a secondary purpose for my journey – one related to historic events and places as opposed to scenic places.  This will allow me to focus (without any feeling of compromise) on some of the historic places and events in the South and New England that relate to the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and other periods of American history.  I still expect to find lots of great scenic places during the rest of my journey, but now will not have to grumble about it if I don’t.  This secondary purpose will be termed “Riding the P.A.T.H. Less Traveled.”  P.A.T.H. stands for Peddle Around Through History.  I feel better now.  I hope Robert Frost doesn’t mind.  

Contributing to that better feeling today was the great weather that I experienced.  It was in the upper 60s here in central Mississippi today with lots of sunshine.  It was the first day in the last two weeks (since Angleton, Texas) that I’ve been able to ride without one or both of my jackets.  I also saw spring flowers for the first time today – daffodils.

I found one more of those nice people at the Super 8 Motel in Magee.  A few minutes after checking in, I remembered that I needed to do laundry—tonight.  I went back to the motel office and asked the lady at the desk if they had a guest laundry.  I was pretty desperate this time, but was fully prepared to walk to a laundromat if necessary.  They do not have a guest laundry, but she said if I could ride “that far,” then she could certainly do my laundry.  So she did it for me at no cost in the motel laundry room.  That was really nice, and I greatly appreciated her kindness.