Up early to leave Florida today. Spent most of the morning in some expected rain showers. Finally got out of it at lunch time, so stopped to put most of my clothes (mostly my shoes) in a laundromat dryer while I went across the street in my socks to McDonald’s for lunch.
With comfortable, dry clothes, the rest of the day was fairly uneventful. Rode North on past Tallahassee and turned west on I-10. I had no idea the area between Tampa and Tallahassee was such great horse country. Reminded me of being in Kentucky.
Somewhere in this area I snapped this picture for a friend. You know who you are.
Between singing to myself and thinking about the rest of the upcoming trip, I almost missed a minor milestone, but I caught it just in time. I couldn’t decide which pic was better, so I put them both up. You decide.
This is sunset on I-10 right at the border of Florida and Alabama. I even got fancy (and dangerous) for a moving shot.
Here is downtown Mobile, AL from the surrounding wetlands area. It really is beautiful in person, I didn’t have time to take the right picture, sitting on a 5 foot shoulder on a bridge with cars going past at 70mph.
Here are two ugly but functional machines, the 2005 KLR650 and the Alabama battleship.
Found a campsite in Desoto National Forest, and right as I pulled into the parking spot, the bike died. I thought it was odd, but maybe it was related to having my hi-beam headlights on (they are aftermarket and draw a lot of power) while the engine was at idle, maybe it just ran out of juice (For all you literary buffs out there, this is a blatant foreshadow). I checked to make sure I could restart the bike, it fired right up. I decided it was likely fine and quickly set up camp, iced down a beer I had bought yesterday and didn’t get to, and hit the sack.
Sorry nothing incredibly entertaining happened for me to blog about. Next time I promise I’ll make something up, but I’m beat for now.
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