Leaving the hotel, we carefully wove our way through the historic section of Mobile and made our way to the Cochrane Bridge. This was our first suspension bridge of the trip and provide a beautiful view of the Mobile River.
In 2003, my son bicycled across the USA and then discovered weeks later that he had
cancer. (He emerged from treatments healthy in 2004.) He inspired me to start biking, and in 2005 I raised over $15,000 for cancer research by making my own trans-America bike trip (achives under March and April 2005). I now work at a bike store but continue to go on long-distance bike trips, both in the US and internationally.