Day 29

We rode 117 miles today. We are now in Gulf Shores, AL. It was a great day for riding. Cool but sunny skies. We rode for a little over 7 hours today and averaged 16.4 mph again. Not bad after riding 126 yesterday. We rode the last hour in the dark but didn't have to use our headlights because we were under a full moon and could see fine. Of course we had ALL of the blinking lights on the back that we keep on all day long so traffic could see us from behind. We had to take a ferry from Daughin Island to Ft. Morgan. The ferry was 95 miles into our ride. We wanted to catch the 3:30 ferry since the next one didn't leave for another hour and a half. We pulled onto the ferry at 3:25. 95 miles and we arrive with 5 minutes to spare!!!??? In fact, we finished lunch at 1:30 and were still 36 miles out. We ripped through those 36 to make it. It was a good challenge to have a goal with a deadline. We have a goal of making it to some specific town every day but no real deadlines. It was fun to test ourselves like that late into a ride.

We will probably ease up a little for the next day or so. Hutch landed in Pensacola. We are about 35 miles west of him so our plan is to meet him mid morning and see just what kind of training he has been doing. He called tonight and it sounded like his bar room training has been robust but we'll have to see how he is in two wheel drive.