Monday Oct. 20, 2014

Ditto Landing in Huntsville, Alabama

A non-cruising day today. I want to go the Space Museum here in Huntsville but logistically it is proving to be a little difficult and expensive. The museum is 16 miles one way from the marina and that is the interstate route, the bike route would be longer. So we called the taxi company and they wanted $35.00 each way, then called Enterprise car rental and they wanted $ 72 for an economy car for the day. They must have talked to the taxi company so I didn’t want to spend $ 70 bucks plus admission to the museum so we figured we would see it by car on our way to Florida sometime. So we googled Wal-Mart and found it was 2.8 miles from the marina. Slam dunk on the bikes. Colletta then asked if I had checked for Aldi’s and I had not, so googled Aldi’s. Would you believe that Aldi’s and Wal-Mart are a half a block apart on the same street and between them is the Enterprise Car Rental. Go figure. So off on our bikes we went to Wal-Mart and Aldi’s. We found as we left the marina, Google said to take the Greenbelt along the highway which we did, a beautiful bike path thru the woods away from traffic but about a mile farther. Who cares, we are one with nature. When we arrived at the intersection between Wal-Mart and Aldi’s we realized we didn’t need anything from Wal-Mart so we hit our favorite grocery store instead. It is another reality shopping when you know you are carrying everything home with you on a bike. 3 nap sacks and a cardboard box bungeed to my bike away we went. Some friends I met on the way back to the boat.

 

After we got back to the boat we unpacked the groceries and chilled out. Then we decided to do some more exploring with the bikes and at the end of the day we had put about 14 miles on the bikes and felt none the worst for it. A low key day but fun.

As we were getting ready for cocktails, a fellow” looper” named Bill from the boat Simpatico stopped at the boat and said he was renting a car in the morning for an appointment and his brother who is traveling with them wanted to go the Space Museum and would we like to go with them. It is really amazing how nice people can be on this adventure. So tomorrow we head to the Space Museum in Huntsville.