Category: Bike Tour
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Gautier, MS to Bay St. Louis, MS
Taking a “cold day” was a good choice. While the morning temperature on our day off didn’t quite get below freezing, it only rose to 46°F at its peak, so that would have made for a pretty miserable day of riding, especially with the 15mph north winds. This morning actually dawned colder, at 28°F, but…
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Mobile, AL to Gautier, MS
Day 7 Somewhere in Florida, I noticed that Rett’s rear wheel had a bit of play in it, wobbling from side to side a tiny amount if I grabbed the tire with my fingers. This suggested an issue with the hub, and while it would be relatively easy to tighten the bearings and remove the…
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Mobile, AL
Day 4 This day we got in the car and drove out to Fairhope, some 30 minutes away on the east shore of Mobile Bay. It’s the town where Rett and I would have spent the night on the way into Mobile if the ferry hadn’t worked out, but we would have seen essentially nothing…
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Mobile, AL
Day 2 We have a week together with Mom & Dad! They arrived this afternoon, about 24 hours after us. The last time they met us out in the world (Eastern Washington in summer 2023), they were traveling in their truck camper, but this time they kept it simpler by just driving down from Chicago…
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Dauphin Island, AL to Mobile, AL
We woke to another abnormally-warm morning, and yesterday’s evening rain had blown itself out, leaving everything nice and dry. The steady breeze would normally require a bundled-up breakfast, but at 68℉, it was a rare camp morning where I was fine wearing shorts the whole time. My parents weren’t so lucky. Their original intention was…