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Finally a day of no cycling. So nice to enjoy island life – relax, catch up on other life, read, sightsee, eat. Visited the very popular Lighthouse Bakery, West End Beach where you can enjoy a sandy walk a very short distance between the Gulf of Mexico and Mobile Bay, & Alabama Aquarium. Cooked inContinue reading “March 28 REST DAY #1”

Lovely bike ride on multiple paths through Gulf State Park and the city of Gulf Shores this morning. Then west to Fort Morgan and the ferry across Mobile Bay to Dauphin Island for 2 nights! Don’t worry, I didn’t count the mileage on the ferry in my cycling mileage! And how are we so luckyContinue reading “Day 8 March 27 Orange Beach, AL to Dauphin Island”

Florida days cycling: most of 7 days, miles: 508, elevation: 11,477’ elevation gain…. amazing when the highest point in the whole state is less than 350’ elevation! Busy Hwy 90 for first early hour with heavy fog and morning traffic, then glorious back country roads, then lovely Blackwater Heritage Trail, then back on 90. AndContinue reading “Day 7 March 26 Crestview, FL to Orange Beach, AL”

Yesterday Tom decided to count churches. From the outskirts of Tallahassee to Marianna, Steven and I helped Tom count 43 churches – actual churches on the route of varying sizes, mostly Baptist or Pentecostal with a smattering of Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Lutheran. Signs for churches off route didn’t count! There were a lot ofContinue reading “Day 6 March 25 Marianna to Crestview”

Would have been nice to spend some time in Tallahassee and see the Florida State campus. Will have to return for a longer visit. Sunrise departure for another long day, but we crossed over to the Central time zone, so life is now an hour earlier! 75.7 miles, 2509’ elevation gain as we entered theContinue reading “Day 5 March 24 Tallahassee to Marianna”

58.7 miles, 1527’ doesn’t sound difficult but started late at 915am after nice B&B breakfast, so ended with 85 degree temps and some varied headwind all day. Wish I could figure out my eating! Stomach aches has been the bane of my challenging cycling for years. Now in the capital of FL – one ofContinue reading “Day 4 March 23 Madison to Tallahassee”

Dinner last night on a hoppin’ Saturday night in historic downtown High Springs. One disadvantage of our treks across America is our choice to keep pedalin’ even when we travel through an interesting place. Cycled across Suwannee River today… made famous by Stephen Foster’s song, “Swanee River”/“Old Folks At Home”. Foster never saw the riverContinue reading “Day 3 March 22 High Springs to Madison”

Last night’s vrbo on a very dry White Sands Lake (hence the very deep sandy roads to get here!) was a comfortable, clean, basic lake front cabin. Most of the Spanish moss is grey and dry looking, and the lakes and swamps and rivers are very low due to an exceptional drought here. Tom cookedContinue reading “Day 2 Melrose to High Springs (thru Gainesville)”

FL nickname: The Sunshine State, bird: mockingbird, flower: orange blossom, wildflower: coreopsis, motto: “In God We Trust” We enjoyed old town St Augustine yesterday, prepped some yummy boiled potatoes, egg bites and Super Hero muffins (“Run Fast, Eat Slow”, Flanagan & Kopecky), went for a test ride (forgot all the water bottles I thought IContinue reading “Day 1 March 20 St Augustine to near Keystone Heights”

St Augustine FL greeted us with mild temps and light winds on St Patrick’s Day. Our driver Jody got held up by airlines, so she arrived a day late. But no worries; we planned on 3 nights here to adjust to the time change and sightsee in the nation’s oldest city (461 years of non-nativeContinue reading “Atlantic Ocean”