Day 5
345 miles
It started raining before we left Vicksburg this morning. I've threatened Keith against polishing his bike again tonight. This is the bridge across the Mississippi River at Vicksburg which took us to Monroe, Louisiana. Need to come back to see Vicksburg sometime, it is an interesting, historical city.
In Louisiana we headed north, the rain went away, and we passed through a town named Transylvania on our way to Providence Port where the above picture was taken. We stopped at the river port and watched rice being loaded onto a barge. The workers told us that cotton is not what it used to be, that mostly they grow corn, soybeans, and rice.
We stopped to see the Cotton Museum. Then we continued north, passing large lakes with cyprus trees growning along the edges. We really felt like we were in the south. We ate lunch at the Catfish Kitchen in Dumas, AR whick tasted like we were eating in the south--good! We drank massive quantities of iced tea, riding in the heat sure makes you thirsty!
This is a rice field. There are wells and pumps that flood the fields. They let the field dry out in order to get the harvesting done.
After harvest, the field is then burned, cultivated, replanted, and flooded again. 
Next we crossed the Arkansas River. The fields changed to hay and cattle, with occasional pine forests. Looking and smelling like home ground now! It was a scorcher again, really hot. We stopped at Heber Springs and stayed the night at a fishing resort below the dam on the Little Red River, a trout fishing place. Was pretty rustic, but we were so tired that we slept anyway.
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