We have found that the amount of work we had to do to finish getting the house packed and ready for new people, and trying to finish off a few computer intensive projects has completely consumed our time since we last posted. As you may notice, we have made a lot of updates to our …
Organizing We have spent the last two days continuing to solve our organizational needs. We are getting the last things packed around the house, and we have looked carefully at everything we had brought with us – evaluating it for usefulness and weight. As an example, when Chelsea took her tumble we didn’t have any …
It’s amazing being home for a short bit after living in such another world for the last 10 days. We have been working 18 hour days getting caught up on blogs, uploading our photos and captioning them and getting them on the website, working on our consulting projects, doing laundry, re-thinking our clothing and equipment, …
We really did get up early this morning, despite our squeaky air mattress neighbor. He was finally quiet this morning, so we tiptoed around, not wanting to hear that again! We were actually riding away at 6:45! We made great time as the air was relatively cool, and the miles just floated by. We took …
We awakened to stifling heat and it didn’t take a genius to figure out that we wouldn’t be riding today. We staggered out of the tent and sat on our picnic bench, watching the only movement in sight, which happened to be a troop of Boy Scouts from Milwaukee WI, on a two week outing …
Loooong and hot would just about describe yesterday’s ride. We left a gorgeous campsite at Long Key, right on the Atlantic Ocean, and we really wanted to stay another day. All night we could hear the waves lapping at the rocks only about 20 feet from us, and in the morning, we watched the early …
Our string of luck is continuing unabated. After an awesome send-off from Lori in Marathon (although very late – we didn’t leave until after 11:30) we headed off up the Keys. It’s so incredibly hot that we can only go about 5 miles before taking a break to let our body temperatures cool down. We …
Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. Grilled parmesan-crusted mahi-mahi with grilled Vidalia onions and baked potatoes for dinner, followed by caramel praline ice cream drizzled with chocolate sauce. A chance to work on our projects all afternoon in a quiet air-conditioned room, with access to a second computer. A real bed to sleep …
We have stumbled into a little slice of paradise here. How hard can life be when we can stagger out of our tent at 7 a.m., grab a granola bar, and wander a few hundred feet over to sit on rocks by ourselves at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, watching the fishing boats and …
Rain awakened us at 5 a.m. and that must have been a subconscious signal – we slept right through the alarm. By the time we woke up, it was clearly threatening more rain. Knowing it takes about 2 hours to get out, and that we would be riding in awful heat, and possible thunderstorms, we …
