It’s 87 degrees in the tent, and I need a towel just to wipe off the sweat – and it’s 8:30 at night -bedtime. We can’t sit outside because the mosquitoes are out. It’s really hot, the daylight will be gone in a few minutes and we still have to pack the trailers, brush our …
So, here we are again, still in Sugarloaf Key, at the KOA campground. How did that happen? The great pub and views notwithstanding, we battled awful mosquitoes and no-see-ums last night, to the point where we nearly flung ourselves into the tent to escape. We knew there would be dew, as we were so close …
Hi Everyone! Our virtual office this afternoon is the “pub” at a KOA campground in Sugarloaf Key. We have instrumental music playing the background – it started with primarily steel drums, switched over to really old country music, and as the liquor flows, the locals are doing some serious sing-a-longs to old country songs. The …
Hi Everyone, It’s after midnight and we are still working. We leave 9 days from now on our great big adventure, and we are beginning to feel the excitement and inevitability of leaving. We have an incredible amount of work to do – we are packing all our personal and family items for storage; we …
Hi Everyone, You’d think that cycling 4280 miles in 3 & 1/2 months would be enough cycling to last for a while, but all it did was to stoke the fires of adventure in us. Deep into our cross-country trip of last summer, one of the notes I had made to myself was noticing when …
June 20, 2006 We had such a fun easy ride today, with only one challenge – the bridge right outside the island. It’s a four-mile bridge, and reaches impressive heights, at least to a bicyclist who’s not at all fond of heights. I had to talk myself up this one –you can check out a …
June 18th, 2006 We reached a milestone! We are in Alabama! Florida is such a big state, that we had begun to feel like we would never get out of the state. But here we are in Orange Beach AL. The day was much tougher than we expected, especially after our “high” of yesterday. The …
June 17th, 2006 We rode 71 miles today! It’s hard to believe, but we ended up having one of our best days right after one of our hardest. Wow, was it hard to get out of bed this morning! After a few days running of heat and hills and wind, we were heading out armed …
June 16th, 2006 Today was a much tougher day. We started out from the Winn Dixie early, but the heat started in right away. We’ve noticed that the heat/humidity combination is really a killer. We reached Chipley early, and took a great break at the Chamber of Commerce there – we’ve gotten to where we …
June 15th, 2006 We made it today to Winn Dixie in Marianna, and with the heat building relentlessly, we decided to quit at 53 miles. We had great luck in finding a great local Mexican restaurant for an immediate lunch, and a few miles farther on, we found a reasonable motel. Chelsea and I spent …
