{"id":1603,"date":"2017-07-04T22:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2017-07-06T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:00:16","slug":"gautier-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/gautier-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautier, MS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very hot and humid today. Went further than I had planned, and not by choice. Will have to update later. Trying to rest quietly in my tent. Only way to be comfortable is to fan myself, but then I can’t sleep.<\/p>\n

\"bicycle
Took me a little while to figure out what this sign was trying to say.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"POW
One campsite was called POW camp. Locals thought it was left over from the Civil War.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"kennel\"
There were six concrete kennels like this one. I imagine that at one time there were iron bars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Larue
There was virtually no shade along the way, and the day was hot, humid, and almost windless. I stopped at the porch of the Baptist Church in Larue to have lunch under the shaded porch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After lunch, the sun occasionally would slip behind a cloud, and I was grateful every time it happened.<\/p>\n

\"gas
This store near Vancleave was the first one I saw since the start of the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"sign
The sign doesn’t report the high humidity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"White
I had hoped to stay at this park, but it was closed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Journey's
Instead, I went 6 miles down highway 57 (off route), to this place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Connie\"
Connie, the manager, shows the kitchen in the Rec Room that they plan to open up soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the air-conditioned Rec room opens, I could see hanging out there for long periods, especially in the humidity. That’s what I did back at Camp Wood in Texas.<\/p>\n

\"Kabins\"
The site was formerly a KOA, so still has Kabins. They are also preparing some new trailers, which will be worth it, once they come on line. A\/C is worth a lot, here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Thunderheads\"
Tuckey, the owner, was taking a few people out to dinner in Biloxi, and invited me to come along. These are the sunset clouds, taken from the car window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"fresh
Biloxi is full of casinos. We ate at the Imperial Palace Buffet at one of them. Freshest salad since California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brenda,
L-R: Brenda (Connie’s mother, believe it or not), Tuckey (Journey’s end owner), Connie (manager), me, Jimmy (a resident at Journey’s End). Jimmy was a former shop and vocational teacher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"fireworks
We went to Ocean Springs Beach later to shoot off some fireworks, which were legal in Mississippi for the 4 weeks surrounding the 4th of July. Jimmy is preparing a mortar which launches an exploding shell, just like a professional display, only smaller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"roman
Roman candles. Some local kids were shooting this type of thing at each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was very little wind at the campsite, so it was not an easy sleep in my tent with all the heat and humidity. If I had an RV with my own A\/C, or if their cabins were online, that would be a different story. So right now, it’s looking like my two days in Mississippi will be 100% camping.<\/p>\n

Goal for tomorrow is Trav-L-Kamp near Grand Bay. It would be some 45 miles via the ACA route, but I plan to follow the Google route of mostly Hwy 90, which is more like 30 miles. And I might have a chance of finding services along the way.<\/p>\n

One of the ACA options is to head up to Mobile, bypassing the Dauphin Island ferry. But I’ve decided to ride the standard Dauphin route.<\/p>\n

Miles: 56.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very hot and humid today. Went further than I had planned, and not by choice. Will have to update later. Trying to rest quietly in my tent. Only way to be comfortable is to fan myself, but then I can’t sleep. After lunch, the sun occasionally would slip behind a cloud, and I was grateful … Continue reading Gautier, MS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}