{"id":1457,"date":"2017-06-26T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T04:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2017-08-09T07:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:40:23","slug":"mamou-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/mamou-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamou, LA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"dump
I dumped the extra half gallon of water I was carrying, but retained the container. With the spacing of towns now, I’m fully confident that I won’t be needing extra water. Lately, I’ve been going full days without even touching my 3rd water bottle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"hillier
I expected the road to be flat, but it was more rolling than the previous day. Long distance would be more difficult than expected.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"straight
The long, straight sections reminded me of Texas, except for the grass and trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"river
I took this picture from a bridge. This is a common view – water encroaching on where trees grow. I saw entire woods with swampy floors today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"it
Mamou at last. I found Ohana lemonade in one of the convenience stores.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Joanne\"
Joanne was running the Exxon convenience store. She was local, and able to tell me a lot about the surrounding towns, including that Ville Platte has two motels, and probably would have been a better place to stay, that Bunkie is a decent place to stay, and that Simmesport is really a fishing levee without many services. Joanne, if I spelled your name wrong, please correct me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I checked in at the only lodging in town – Hotel Cazan. It was more like a Bed and Breakfast, with individually decorated boutique rooms. The hotel was built in 1950, on top of a historical 1911 building. At $122 including tax, it was far more than I needed.<\/p>\n

\"Hotel
Hotel Cazan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If things had been different, I might have made it to Ville Platte, but dwelling on might-have-been is a waste of time. I must assume that I was put in Mamou for a reason, to see something, or meet someone.<\/p>\n

\"room
There weren’t any restaurants open by the time I checked in (almost 6), only grocery stores without deli sections. I got some peaches, but as the room had no microwave, there was nothing I could prepare. I didn’t even have a hot water source to make my freeze-dried. Another alternative was bar food, but that didn’t appeal to me. I just ate some beef jerky, a peach, and some pecan swirls. It will be enough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My original goal for tomorrow was going to be Simmesport, but on Joanne’s description, I’ll just head for Bunkie, which is about 35 miles away.<\/p>\n

Miles today: 45 (estimate, cyclometer stopped recording at one point)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I checked in at the only lodging in town – Hotel Cazan. It was more like a Bed and Breakfast, with individually decorated boutique rooms. The hotel was built in 1950, on top of a historical 1911 building. At $122 including tax, it was far more than I needed. If things had been different, I … Continue reading Mamou, LA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}