We have to allocate a few Heroes of the Day for this 12 days – John Cheetwood gets one for the awesome bird watching tours, for letting us use his campsite, and for being a source of great conversation. Mary Held gets one for finding and getting us the mosquito repellant, Beat It, and for …
July 25th, 2007 – August 6th, 2007 Getting there… Our ride up to St Augustine was great fun for the first part of the day. The road was easy and we had some really beautiful sections. At one point well along in the ride we stopped for a short break at a conservation area, and …
The fact that it was Chelsea’s birthday must have cast a bit of magic on the day, because we had the prettiest and quietest ride yet on the trip. Getting out of Daytona was easy, and we rode through a beautiful quiet tree-shaded area for much of the day. We decided to stop at Beverly …
The key characteristic of our time at Evelyn’s house was nurturing. We hadn’t actually seen Evelyn since we stayed at her house at the start of the St. Augustine to San Francisco trip last year, so it seemed really fitting to be there again, doing another big trip. We love Evelyn’s house – it’s roomy …
One of the things we loved the best about Jim and Laurie Hall is that they are inveterate travelers and adventurers. They are both airline pilots, though Laurie has recently “retired”, and this has given them great opportunities to see the world. They’ve got two daughters, and the whole family has gone on numerous trips, …
Deciding on improvements As I lay on my sleeping pad, hot and miserable during our raccoon and mosquito experience, I decided that this was going to be the low point of our trip, and that everything from now on would be greatly improved. I wasn’t quite sure how to pull it off, but I started …
Heat, heat, and more heat We feel like we’ve died and gone to heaven right now, as we are in air conditioning for the first time since last Sunday morning in Port St. Lucie. We say heaven, because we have been dealing with daily temperatures over 100 degrees – on Sunday morning it was 96 …
The wheels of adventure are rolling again! The alarm went off at 5 a.m. and it only took us 10 minutes to get out of bed. We had an extremely efficient process for getting out the door. We had no tent to take down, and we had packed up everything possible last night. We were …
Getting out the door We finally made it out of Delray Beach, and it was a real whirlwind getting out the door. Chelsea and I have closed Compass Rose and we have started a new company called Traveling Roses. We spent that last day before leaving running around opening and closing bank accounts, making bank …
Getting out of Dodge Work. Pack. Work. Pack. A few hours of sleep a night. That about sums it up for the last few weeks. We have been putting in 15-18 hour days getting everything organized and finishing up the packing. It’s just astonishing the kinds of things we have to think about – things …
