Bike Odyssey Day 10 – And the Lord said…

…How about a day of rest? Our first complete day off – and where better to spend it than beautiful Oxford, MS, jewel of the south? Its gorgeous colonaded square, filigree ironwork balconies, and the sheer peace and quiet of it! More than that, of course, to anyone familiar with the ‘Jefferson’ of Faulkner’s novels, modeled on Oxford, every vista and every building seems about to pour his characters onto the sidewalk.

I had to take this up with Bill, and we passed a happy hour beneath a perfume-laden magnolia, on the Square, reviewing some of his more remarkable Jeffersonians.

Sacrilege. It takes an Aussie to plant his hand on Bill’s hat.