Day 40 - Silsbee, TX to DeRidder, LA

Two items of note today: the route today was even flatter than yesterday, if that's possible; and we finally left Texas.

I can't even remember not being in Texas, we were there that long. Over three weeks. I liked Texas a lot, but I'm glad to leave it behind. Once again it feels like progress is being made.

We finally had a sustained tailwind. I stopped writing about the wind, but it's been a constant impediment to our progress. Recently we've had some protection from the trees, but today we ran north for the first 30 miles and had a 20-mph south wind the whole time. Those 30 miles flew by and we were at the Three Flags Cafe in Bon Weir for lunch in no time, 47 miles already behind us. J&M had fried catfish, I had breakfast: bacon and eggs with a monster biscuit. We also shared an order of boudin squares which are hard to describe, but delicious. Grant - note the table cloth on the table behind J&M in the lunch photo. get your guns up!

Bon Weir is only a couple of miles from the Sabine River, the Texas/Louisiana border, a couple if minutes after lunch we were in Louisiana. Yay!

We pushed on to DeRidder only stopping for the occasional photo. For dinner we had a couple of recommendations for the Cecil Cajun Cafe (fellow at the visitors information stop and guy at stop light), but it was a disappointment. I feel we continue to make bad choices for our meals.