Meridian Mississippi

Sela Ward from CSI NY is from Meridian. She organized a home for abused children called Hope Village - the carousel horse is at the visitor center - smaller ones are for sale in the city and the proceeds go to the children's home.

Ocean City

911 Memorial

More 911 Parade Pictures

220 bikes rode in the parade down the boardwalk - very impressive! Special ceremony held at the Fireman Memorial.

Furnace Town - hot blast furnace used in early 1800's. Bog ore was added to furnace, heated to 3000 degrees and iron was extracted and shipped to large cities.

Rode through some historic areas and beautiful countryside today. Had a large group for the ride. Some of the chapters choose to use red vests rather than black - Canada and some of the eastern US chapters - interesting to meet so many different people.

FYI - after 4 days rain gear leaks and you still get wet! Waves on the beach are strong here - foggy now, hope the sun comes out later.

Spent the night with friends Patty and Tom near Fredrick MD before getting to Ocean City. Patty and I were in Girl Scouts together eons ago - good food, good wine, great company!

Blueridge Parkway

2nd Day

The sun does exist - we saw it for about an hour this morning. Then it left us in the rain for most of the rest of the day! I did extract the camera out of its rain gear for a few pictures. One is a shot at a rest area in Alabama - just before the rain started. The others around Knoxville where we got a little break - we lost an hour going into Eastern time so made just a few more miles than yesterday. Pour the water out of the boots be ready for tomorrow!

First Day to Ocean City

We traveled 450 miles thru Louisiana and Mississippi - not a good day for pictures - I posted one on facebook from the phone. Got wet the last 70 miles. Wind was worse - really strong - I am still walking at an angle - tomorrow will be better! Glad I didn't clean my bike up real good.