have ridden the part from about 60 miles south of Natchez. Mostly wide open and smooth but with a gradual and insidiously sneaky uphill except of the last 10 miles or so where we got off the trace to go into town which had quite a lot of short not so gentle hills.

Natchez itself has a few hills. The trace is lovely and generally quite wide ohadn the part we rode. The only problem I had was with a couple of big motor homes who insisted that they needed the full width of both lanes and the shoulder and blithely drove me into the grass.

marni