Riding at the beach

[Mr. Bloom]

The ride was awesome(ly windy!).

We started in Pensacola and went with the wind 10 miles. In Orange Beach, Al, we cut north and found an AWESOME MUP that cut through the state park - it even had a hill that rose to an elevation of 47 feet

Then we went west down Ft Morgan road and turned back into the wind! We did two loops through the MUP to get miles with semi shelter.

The last 12 miles were treacherous. The gusts between buildings would magnify the wind and would buffet us about and we could barely hit 10mph going into the wind at the Perdido Pass Bridge!

It was awesome! I was sound asleep by 7:30! So, now i'm awake at 2am about to continue with the new Grisham book!

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Silver - SOUNDS awesome alright! Better you than me.. I had enough fun crossing our dam (yes, "dam") in the wind we had. I work downtown though and I know the kind of wind acceleration that can occur through there. Yikes!!!

[Mr. Bloom]

The Blue Angels are practicing outside our window! You see them a hundred times and you still run and look! I guess even big boys love big sonic booms!

[Running Mommy]

ahh mr silver. Being a huge fan of the redneck riviera, I know EXACTLY where you were riding. I want to go back!!!!! I need a beach va-kay right about now.
Very cool about the blue angels as well. This past weekend our local airbase did their open house, so we had lots of fly overs as well.
Hope you are enjoying the beach. Have some shrimp for me.

[Aint Doody]

Mr. Silver, I, too, can visualize y'all's ride. I love it down there. Is Coconut Willie's still there? They have the best fried crab claws I ever had in my whole juicy life! I haven't been to the RR in quite a few years. Now my family has inched eastward. We had been to Navarre for several years and this summer we'll be at Seagrove Beach--on the other side of Destin nearer Panama City. I've not been there before. I can hardly wait!!!

And watching the Blue Angels practise is amazing. One year we sat on our deck and watched some sort of war game deal going on at night--flares and fake(I guess) bullets with tracers. Just amazing. And once one of those whatever-they-are jets zoomed right along the beach so low that it made us all duck our heads!

[Mr. Bloom]

Here's the Garmin...

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/i...kValue=7872610

To my surprise, it shows us dipping below sea-level near the State Line (actually at the State Park). I wouldn't have guessed that...but it would also explain why the State Park is a State Park

[solobiker]

Sounds like a great ride. I was going to ride after work today but the wind is really picking up. Right now according to the weather report the wind speed is about 30mph with higher gusts. A big spring storm is blowing my way. The forcast says to plan for 8-16inches of snow Well, we do need the moisture. Hope the tree branches can handle the weight of this snow. Happens every spring.