Moto Giro degli Stati Uniti: Gulf of Mexico

Friday Morning August 14 Venerdi mattina 14 Agosto

So here we are on I-10 just east of the Alabama line. We camped here last night while Clint and Charleen backtracked to the noon time restaurant in Apalachicola where she left her purse. We are going to Mobile to see the battleship USS Alabama and then proceed to New Orleans where we will all meet up at a prearranged motel. We are over 100 miles ahead of them so our tour of the ship should even driving times. They are not overly interested in seeing a battleship. It is 6 or 7:45 here. We are right at the time zone change so we are not really sure. It is already warm here and we are in the shade. The humidity is very high, over 90% and we don't care for it. The Aussies live just below the tropics so it is more comfortable for them as they are accustomed to it. Yesterday was a travel day but it was along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico so it was quite scenic. We saw oyster boats doing their trade with long rakes to pull the oysters off the bottom and into the boat. The boats were piled high with oysters so it seems to work well. We stopped for coffee in Apalachicola a little after noon. After that we saw a white sandy beach so we stopped for a look and Linda and I waded in the warm waters of the gulf. About 3 we stopped for gas and that is where Charleen discovered that she was purseless so they went back and we went on using a different route that took us closer to Mobile. At the gas station was a large boat filling up for the weekend. When I looked his gas bill was $153 and climbing rapidly. He told me that he was just getting started with putting fuel into it. There was also a Lamborghini with him filling up. It appears that I was in rich company. We found a very nice KOA alongside I-10 and only had to pay $23 for a tent site. The bugs were not too noisy so we managed to get a decent night's sleep until the early bird's chirping woke us up at sunrise. 320 miles.