Day 4, Bobby Nathez Ride

Today, April 30th, we rode Iuka, MS to Hohenwald, TN about 73 miles. A beautiful ride and visited neat the end at Meriweather Lewis Park. You probably know that Merriweather was the first President of the Louisiana Purchase territory and teamed with Clark in the famous Lewis and Clark exposition to establish a route to the West Coast. Merriweather Lewis dies at this site at an early age of 40 (approx) from self inflicted gun shot wounds. His grave is marked by the monument in one of the pictures below of cyclist going through a part of the park. The picture above was made as we crossed the Tennessee River. The other picture is a portion of the actual Natchez Trace. Maybe you can imagine wagons being pulled by Oxen from Nashville to Nathez and the Mississippi Rive, about 500 miles!!