Title: 103!?!

That is not just the temperature but the distance we rode yesterday. That’s right, we did our first century ride from Greenville, AL to Atmore, AL which is right on the Florida line, so we are finally getting down to the coast. Let me start by saying I was feeling terrible yesterday when we started. I was hoping to maybe catch a ride south, but to no avail, so we had a long day ahead of us. We got on some backroads and let me tell you, when you get off the main highway in Alabama the roads turns quite interesting. Well, we made our first stop in Beatrice and met the Mikey Stearns of that town, and by that I mean the Prince of Beatrice. This guy knew everybody and told us exactly what we need to do and where to go. After we rocked awhile in front of the country store we headed out for Monroeville. He did warn us about Falkenberry Hill, probably the biggest hill in south Alabama. It amounted to a little less than Padgetts. But we got to Monroeville and had some lunch at the Courthouse Café. The waitress was rocking one of the best fem-mullets I have seen in a while and after 5 or 6 glasses of sweet tea we were off again. At this point I told Judah, “ I may regret saying this in 5 or 10 miles, but if we are going to do a century ride, today is the day.” Luckily the road flattened out and we made great time down into Atmore. One interesting thing of note: a big rat ran across the road just as we passed by and ran directly between my wheels. I would have been super pissed if I hit it and took a tumble, it was that big.



There was not much going on in Atmore, so we hit up the Pizza Hut, checked the nutritional facts at the door and I proceeded to eat an entire medium pizza. I figured since I burned at least 5000 calories during the ride at 2500 calorie pizza was just a drop in the bucket. Oh yeah, we did put a few Miller High Lifes on top of that.



We slept in a little this morning since we were doing a measly 50 miles into Mobile today. It was super humid on the ride, but we made it into town around noon. After a quick shower we headed down to Dauphine St., the main drag here in Mobile. We grabbed some lunch at the Hurricane Brewing Co., let me just say I love the name and the décor. Judah ordered a Floating Car Pale Ale and I got an Insurance Adjuster Amber. It’s great they can have a sense of humor down here. We are now at the public library, then off to get a razor for a quick shave then to dinner. Hopefully, we will have a few tales to entertain all of you tomorrow when we get to Pascagula, MS.



Living the dream,

Steve