Arkansas

Hello CC2C friends,

This morning got off to an interesting start with the discovery of a flat tire on the Bulletproof Tiger aka the Volvo station wagon. It was inevitable that we get at least one flat on this trip with all the shoulders of roads, gravel and rocks we drive over and fortunately as far as flat tires go this was a Grade A situation since we were in the parking lot of our hotel. Definitely better than the middle of nowhere and with air conditioned rooms and a pool to keep us company till the tow truck arrived. By the time everything in the car was back in order it was the hot part of the day so we missed out on morning skating all together. Fortunately we were ahead of schedule anyway and still made it to our mile goal for the day with some evening skating. We crossed the mighty Mississippi, Shayne took a dip in it but then had to run from the Bull Sharks, and we all went to Arkansas for the first time. So far Arkansas seems to be really flat, which would be wonderful if we could find some back roads that are actually paved like they say on the map. Lots of rice paddies and lots of mosquitoes. When driving back to our hotel in Mississippi in the dark it sounded like we were going through a light rain from he noise of the bugs hitting the windshield. Tomorrow we plan to go back down to Jackson, Mississippi to get the skaters various aches and pains checked out and hopefully be able to follow through on some publicity opportunities since it is one of the larger cities in the state. Since it will be the weekend tomorrow we're hoping to be able to capitalize on different traffic patterns and use some bigger roads that we know are actually paved. Wish us luck!
-The CC2C Crew