Today is a bit of a red letter day, as it is our 100th day of tagteaming across the country! It's also the 104th night in a row that we've camped in our teardrop camper (after leaving Boise we had camped four nights before we started our cycling). That is more than double our previous record of 49 nights camping.
We woke up to some pretty good rain this morning, but we weren't happy with where we were camping. Tiptoeing into that nasty toilet in an attempt to keep from dropping through the floor grew old very fast. And Grand Bay had little to offer to distract us from the weather.
We hemmed and hawed about what to do, but when the weather let up a bit Alea decided to ride, rain or not. Our original goal was a campground on the east side of Mobile Bay (yesterday I had mistakenly thought it was in Florida, but the campground is a few miles west of the state line), but the Mobile Bay Ferry shut down today due to high winds (and there is a good chance it will be closed again tomorrow and perhaps longer). So we made it only as far as Dauphin Island Campground ($32.48, full hookups and cable TV), which is located just across from the ferry terminal. This campground is a far better deal for the price than the one last night.
Soon after we arrived here the rain stopped, but the wind is easily blowing at 20 mph and gusting to 30-35 mph and hasn't let up all afternoon (it's really rocking the camper right now!). So we're happy to have cable TV (our cable just BARELY reaches the multiplexer box), so that we can pass some time watching football.
We did take some time to explore our surroundings. Fort Gaines is just down the road, one of two forts that have guarded the entry to Mobile Bay since the early 1820s. We also took a stroll to an adjacent nature area and had a brief walk on the beach.
I would have taken some pictures today, but Alea's phone seemed to have been near death, so we traded phones while she was riding. This morning we weren't able to get hers to wake up except on USB power (despite being fully charged), and that didn't last long. It seems to be working now, so perhaps there was an application update that was faulty and they've now sent out an update that works. Time will tell.
We've made the decision to drive around Mobile Bay tomorrow, and will resume cycling at the ferry terminal on the other side of the bay. We checked the weather reports, and if they are accurate it is likely the ferry will be docked for at least a few more days. The detour will also allow us to find a pet store and a bike store, so that we can buy some needed items.
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