So lost my job and figured I should make some lemonade out of a rather lemony situation. Decided going to do my first significant self supported tour. I have done several overnighters / weekends but no longer rides. Planning on doing Natchez trace parkway out and back from Nasheville in april. Need to go in first part of april...probably first two weeks...maybe even last week of march/first week of april. I am targetting 2 weeks for the full out and back trip as i need to have wife drop/pick me up and she can only do it on weekends. given my current semi out of shapeness could be agressive...but i have some time to work on conditionning and i feel should be probably be doable since would be 65 mile days. If i cant quite make the retun all the way back to nasheville in 2 weeks will just have to have the wife drive down the trace further and pick me up.

Wondering if anyone has experience with the weather / conditions on the the trace during early april? I have looked at average highs/lows and seems like roughly 70/50 for the monthly average (nasheville...slightly warmer more south) Seems like great temperature range from my perspective but wondering if it tends to be rainy/stormy/windy. Anyone with input / thoughts/advice on doing natchez in early april would love the feed back.

cant wait to do it...it looks like a beautiful ride and a perfect choice for longer first self supported ride. I really love that there are basically no directions (Get on road...ride 444 miles...turn around).

thanks