04 May 2014 Gainesville to Palatka, FL 60 miles (Total Miles = 2,883) I can see the St. John’s River from our room and by room I do NOT mean the vestibule of our tent but from an actual room at the Crystal Cove Resort. This last word is not one that I have typed …
03 May 2014 White Springs to Gainesville, FL 72 miles (Total Miles = 2,823) Gina is calling them like a cat in for supper – “Here, gator, gator, gator! Here, gator, gator, gator!” I’d like to see her face should one actually come running out of the roadside swamp, but if that were to happen, …
02 May 2014 Monticello to White Springs, FL 74 miles (Total Miles = 2,751) Gina is gesturing toward the huge roadside oaks draped in spanish moss like Vanna White revealing letters on Wheel of Fortune. “Behold!” her gesture speaks. That, or her left shoulder is really bothering her, thus why she’s waving it to and …
01 May 2014 Tallahassee to Monticello, FL 48 miles (Total Miles = 2,677) Is it ironic that on the Southern Tier, traveling through states like California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida, I have yet to put on my swim suit? Or would that just be sad? This is what I wonder while feeling a cold …
30 April 2014 Tallahassee, FL 0 miles (Total Miles = 2,629) Weather, weather, weather. This is the focus of our off day here in Tallahassee. It’s still thundering and lightning and raining and we’ve had the Weather Channel tuned in most of the day from our happy-to-not-be-camping room at the Tallahassee Motel 6. The still …
29 April 2014 Marianna to Tallahassee, FL 0 miles (Total Miles = 2,629) I once was awakened to a Tsunami Alert, when I was told to go above deck and sit on the rail with my survival suit at my feet. I guess the skipper didn’t think our chances were all that great of being …
28 April 2014 Crestview to Marianna, FL 92 miles (Total Miles = 2,629) My bicycle tire has yet to roll a single inch but I’m already drenched in sweat. I don’t know about this Florida. Having been born here you’d think I’d have some kind of genetically or environmentally engineered protection against this humidity but …
27 April 2014 Gulf Beach to Crestview, FL 78 miles (Total Miles = 2,537) I feel the sting and quickly process the fact that this is not one of the many aches and pains that have come to feel ‘normal’ on this trip but instead something new, an unwelcome sensation likely associated with an unwelcome …
26 April 2014 Dauphin Island, AL to Gulf Beach, FL 43 miles (Total Miles = 2,459) “No wonder you’ve had 4 flats.” This is Gina’s response when I point out the massive wad of chewing gum now stuck to the bottom of my left bike shoe; this following the dog crap that had been stuck …
25 April 2014 (South of) Vancleave, MS to Dauphin Island, AL 71 miles (Total Miles = 2,416) We are escorting Candy down Dog Alley – i.e., the stretch of route where a rider was bitten 3 years ago – when it occurs to me that I never posted my blog about Dogs. Here’s what I …