71,7km – 10H03′<\/p>\n
On the road to Madison\u2026 and Georgia<\/p>\n
After crossing the town named Lee, we head due west and arrive in Madison.\u00a0 We thought we saw Ray Charles\u2019s childhood home but no, it is in Greenville, to the west of here.\u00a0 We turn north toward Quitman and Georgia.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Madison is a lovely little old-fashioned town, with a few old houses built in the 19th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Yes, the USA is a young country that some may turn up their nose at, saying that there is nothing to see; however, in this region there are buildings that are beginning to be old because they date from the time of the Civil War (see photos).\u00a0 As we leave Madison it begins to rain and we can hear thunder in the distance.\u00a0 It\u2019s a gloomy day, the temperature has dropped to 22\u00b0C and we can breathe easily, which is nice.\u00a0 We are almost like our little duck, happy to be in the refreshing rain.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s in the rain that we cross the state line between Florida and Georgia.\u00a0 Since there are lots of children who are following us, I will let them tell me how many States there are in the USA.<\/p>\n \nAt km 61 of the stage, we cross Quitman for 2 km and all of a sudden we are back in the country. \u00a0Since yesterday there are lots of cultivated fields, which is a comparative change from the southern part of Florida.\u00a0 This evening Serge stopped near a farm, which smelled very strongly of manure.\u00a0 The smell is overpowering and there is no doubt about it, it\u2019s rural.\u00a0 Serge admires the pink flowers that grow in front of many of the homes.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if you have noticed on the photos, but it is not unusual for towns to have a crest or a motto.\u00a0 Quitman\u2019s is \u201cCity of Camellias,\u201d which explains these bushes that add color to the scene and make a change from the predominantly green road between today\u2019s two towns.<\/p>\n \nSerge is tired and tells me so at the end of the stage, when he walks a lot but enjoys it. In Georgia the mosquitoes have arrived.\u00a0 Where have they been?\u00a0 We wonder if in Florida they don\u2019t spray insecticide on a wide scale because it was humid but there wasn\u2019t the shadow of a mosquito.\u00a0 At km2 in Georgia they appeared.\u00a0 Is it a coincidence?\u00a0 I will probably never get an answer to this question.<\/p>\n Serge is in bed after having eaten well.\u00a0 He went to bed without looking at his e-mails or tomorrow\u2019s route; too tired!<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 71,7km – 10H03′ On the road to Madison\u2026 and Georgia After crossing the town named Lee, we head due west and arrive in Madison.\u00a0 We thought we saw Ray Charles\u2019s childhood home but no, it is in Greenville, to the west of here.\u00a0 We turn north toward Quitman and Georgia. \u00a0Madison is a lovely little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}