We woke up at 4:30 a.m. this morning to drive Laura to the airport in Pensacola for her early morning flight. Had a quick goodbye and then turned around to drive back to Gulf Shores. We got back to Gulf Shores by 6:45 a.m. and packed the bikes onto the car to drive to the end of the island to Fort Morgan State Park where we were set to get on the 8:45 a.m. Ferry across the Mobile Bay so that we could start our riding in Dauphin Island. We had already riden the 20 miles from our hotel in Gulf Shores to Fort Morgan the day before so that we could drive the bikes down this morning without losing any of our riding miles. We are no cheats!!
We got across the Mobile Bay and began our morning ride at just after 10:30 a.m. The skies were cloudy and we had intermittent rain early as we road the 13 miles off of Dauphin Island across the bridge and back onto the mainland. Once we got over the bridges we had a pretty decent tailwind and the riding went well. The most difficult part of the day was trying to decipher the language of one Mississippian who stopped to talk to us while we were eating lunch. (Oh yeah, we also have left Alabama behind and entered Mississippi! 2 States down!)
We finished the day with a really beautiful ride from Biloxi to Gulfport that took us right along the Southern coast and then up a pretty busy Route 49 to our hotel just off of Interstate 10. We got some delicious Mexican food at Los Tres Amigos which happened to be across the street from our hotel and are now about to call it a night.
It's really nice when an 84 mile ride like today feels pretty easy... Back at it tomorrow with what is forecasted to be a pretty powerful headwind. Wish us luck!
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