Dothan

Spent the night in Dothan, with WILLLLL!!!!!! lol Had a great time hanging out with him last night.

I was moving super fast yesterday, made it about 30mph up a hill yesterday (then died, ha).

BUT I had my first flat yesterday. So I stopped and put a new tube in. I HATE this air pump, Kevin. :-) Being my first tube change with this type of tire I ruined the tube and it wouldn't hold air. It was also starting to get dark, so I got rescued about 5 miles out of town.

Instead of trying to use another new tube I patched the one I ruined, and I think it is holding air. :-)

I saw a medium sized wild cat dead on the side of the road yesterday too. I was gonna stop and take a pic of it, but I wasn't in a good place to stop.

No pic today! :-P so sorry.

TROY

Made it to Troy today. Sure is some beautiful country through here. I am also starting to see some swamp type stuff. 

Pretty cool looking, I didn't stop at any of the really really cool looking stuff. :-( I should have gone back, it was neat.

Had a head wind again today... but at least no rain... yet. 

I REALLY enjoyed my time with John Burch in Montgomery! What a great family! :-D 

Just a little ways to go! 

JESUS LOVES YOU.

I had a pretty hard ride today. It was my longest of the trip, 67 miles and I had a strong head-wind today.

Also, there was some construction on the road I was riding on today so most traffic was stopped. I stopped with the traffic, but was waved on by the flagger: "You are a on bike, you don't have to stop" So I had the road all to myself for the next couple of miles which was a welcome change of pace.

Most of my travels should be farely flat from here on out. :-) SO that should be fun, but it looks like it might rain tomorrow, and possibly the next day. OH well, I have been extremely blessed with mostly awesome weather!

Some I often have to remember, and am often reminded on this trip: "Jesus loves me" and you and you and you and you. He pretty much loves us all, and that is AMAZING! :-D

Here is the sign I saw coming into town today:

Yesterday

I didn't get to update yesterday. :-( I was in a hotel in Calera AL with no computer, but free internet!

I had a place ligned up to stay in Calera, but it turns out they were gonna be outta town. The people that set it up felt so bad they got me a room at the Days Inn!!!! :-D THanks a bunch!! It was SO great!

I wanted to post photos of the scary house from Cullman, but decided that might be out of line or something... lol Who knows.

My ride to Calera was very nice, about 50 miles or so and some large hills through Birmingham. Here are some pics from above(ish) Birmingham.

SOOOOOOooOo, I am in Birmingham already. If you are watching the schedule at all I wasn't supposed to be here till tomorrow. Here is the deal: I road to Cullman AL to scope out the couch I would be staying on there. I arrived to the house just fine and the guy was at work but had left the house unlocked for me. I went in took a shower and made some phone calls and put on dry clothes. (it rained this morning during my ride, not a plesent esperience) I have been blessed with great weather so far so I guess I can't complain. WOW, lots of rambling!

Anyway, the guys house in Cullman was kinda scaryish. Alyse came and picked me up so I didn't have to stay there for too long.

I didn't get to take any new pics today do to the rain, so here are some old ones.

Decatur!

I had a great short ride to Decatur today. Not many large hills at all, one huge bridge (pictured below). I for real thought I was gonna die on this bridge. My seat was higher than the cement guard... SCARY anyway, I don't have much else to say for today, but quite a bit pics today. Enjoy.

Huntsville hills?

I didn't see any hills. :-)

I had a great/beautiful ride today! There was a very large hill just outside of Shelbyville, but it was a fun challenge. I stopped in Fayetteville for lunch, and after that it was mostly flat till I got into Huntsville. In Huntsville the hills weren't too bad.

Here is a pic of me crossing into Alabama. I really love reading everyone's comments so keep them coming! Miss and love everyone!!

Also here is a pic of my good friend Dan and I!