DAY 30!!!!!Pine Bluff Arkansas---2445 miles to Portland, Oregon on bicycle. 699 miles to Freeport, Florida. For the first 25 days everyone we met thought that Florida was so far away and we would have a difficult time completing this ride. Now we are feeling that it is just around, over and down the next stretch of road. Also, people were saying that Florida was sooo far away but now, Portland is a long way from here. I guess I could have said; "we are getting closer to home everyday! It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Bologna! It was humid today but the heat was a killer. It was 111 degrees at 1:00pm and still at 4:30pm it was 102. By the way, Arkansas is not flat. It is a state with the Ozark Mts. to the west and the rolling hills throughout. We went through many small towns today. They all looked the same; old, poor, run down, businesses closed but they all had many Baptist Churches. The pictures today reflect the heat, our views of an alligator river, Ozark Mts. and us and where we are. Pine Bluff is a gang infested city and the curfews are strongly enforced to keep kids off the streets. We are planning for an early start to close in on the Mississippi River.
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