by Melanie McManus | Apr 23, 2021 | Natchez Trace (Hiking) 2021, Tennessee, Trail Journals
Today’s hike to Collinwood should have been great. After all, it was our shortest day, at 13.2 miles (21.2 km). Also, we had booked a night’s stay at Miss Monetta’s Country Cottage, a lovely spot run by lovely people whom Ed and I met eight years ago. But the day did...
by Melanie McManus | Apr 24, 2021 | Natchez Trace (Hiking) 2021, Tennessee, Trail Journals
Oh, what a day reaching Dogwood Mudhole! Actually, that wasn’t the main problem. So, Amy and I are both suffering from tendinitis. She decided to take the day off. I was going to do the same, then dive back into 20-mile (32.2-km) days. But the more I thought about...
by adventuretoward | Oct 30, 2013 | Alabama, Biking, Mississippi, Natchez Trace (Biking) 2013, Tennessee, Trail Journals
Today Ed and I set another record: we biked 90 miles (145 km) to Collinwood, Tenn., farther than either of us has ever biked before. YIt wasn’t as difficult as we’d thought. Maybe it’s because we’re becoming conditioned. Anyway, as I wrote yesterday, we had...
by adventuretoward | Oct 31, 2013 | Biking, Natchez Trace (Biking) 2013, Tennessee, Trail Journals
We’d been hearing for almost a week about a big storm coming Thursday, our day to bike to Hohenwald. Normally, weather forecasts are wrong, but this one was right. We woke up to light rain, which was predicted to intensify during the day. First, we biked over to The...
