The night of our last rest day was made exciting by a siren that went off on Dauphin Island at 2AM. What could it be the siren mean? For those of our tour members from the midwest, they know that it was a tornado warning. We knew that we expected some thunderstorms, but hadn't expected tornadoes.
And, indeed, after a few minutes the siren stopped - the worst of the storm was going well north of us. We some rain and thunder, it passed quickly. But it did enliven and interrupt the night's sleep for everyone.
Then, as morning broke, the sky was clear, the sun was bright, and there was a mild wind from the west!
And our day was to start with a ferry ride across the mouth of Mobile Bay:
which gave us a better view of Fort Gaines on our departure:
And then we were on a smooth coastal highway, with the wind at our backs.
We made good time, and entered Florida - the last state of our tour:
Just over the state line between Alabama and Florida is an unusual bar - "Florabama":
Surprisingly it includes a church within bar, and as we stopped in they were celebrating Palm Sunday in that section of the bar:
In another section of the bar we tried their 'Bushwacker' drink (it seemed like a chocolate milk shake spiked with rum - it was weird):
and some of the other tour members had some raw oysters:
And then it was on to Pensacola. We stopped for a rest in a really big chair:
and then had a Sunday brunch, including some unusual Eggs Benedict:
We're staying at the Pensacola YMCA, and tomorrow we start the final stretch of bicycling over the next 8 days along the Florida panhandle and then to St.. Augustine.
Overall we rode for 58.0 miles at an average speed of 14.4 mph and a maximum of 33 mph with no flats.
No comments:
Post a Comment