Re name: thanks -- it's an ironic tag hung me by the guys at the music bar in NOLA where I worked the door (yet another side gig).

Ship Island! -- nothing but glaring hot sun and sand fleas.

My family will be down to Orange Beach, AL, in late August. I'm sure my wife and mother-in-law will take a day at the Biloxi casinos. They usually do whenever they're at the condo. Hopefully, the in-laws will have some bikes at the condo.

So strange, I left Miss. long before the casinos arrived, and when I came back to NOLA, spend beach time at Bay St. Louis. I can't imagine trying to ride there now, especially with most of what I knew and loved having been erased.