April 4, Day 35

All is well with my heart - it got better late last night and by this morning is was behaving normally.  So, we were able to get a full day of riding in and ended up in Daphne, Alabama for a total of 103 miles.

Here is Kevin at the Alabama line - got to love the orange / red clay.  The roads so far in Alabama have been great, a vast improvement over Mississippi roads. 

We were going to take a more southern route that would have led us through Dauphin Island, but we were under a high wind advisory today and the ferry that we needed to take wasn't running.  We didn't want to chance the ferry not running in the morning, so we took a northern route instead that led us through Mobile.  I've shared a lot of pretty pictures from the trip, but we go by some not so pretty areas as well.  We made a loop around the Mobile port area in order to cross the river, not scenic, but it was interesting none the less.

The USS Alabama was part of a military museum just outside of Mobile.

In the morning, we went through many southern pine forests that shielded us from the high winds. 

When we were in the open though the wind was howling.  Sustained winds of 25 - 35mph with higher gusts all day.  And of course, just like 98% of the trip the wind was blowing against us.

 



Our time in Alabama will be limited, about 50 miles into tomorrow's ride we will enter Florida.