Author: neil

We continued west along the Gulf Coast on US-98, and six miles in when it cut overland, Rett voted to branch off onto the minor road that continued to hug the coast, a rare vote because it added four miles to our day. US-98 wasn’t some bike-touring dream, but it was fine, so I took…

As expected, it felt a shame to leave the State Park campground, with morning on the Ochlockonee River just as still and peaceful as the evening had been. Well, the squirrels were neither still nor peaceful; they were twice as frantic and feinting as they were yesterday afternoon, though we didn’t need to take up…

At the end of yesterday’s miles of emptiness, it was a surprise to see a couple of cyclists riding the other way. Then at the country bar, a couple of muscled and sweaty college guys showed up on their hybrid bikes. This sudden appearance of our two-wheeled brethren was likely facilitated by a trail that…

The last couple days have taken us through the very-unpopulated Big Bend corner of Florida, but today we achieved a new level of East Coast emptiness. Once we got through Perry in our first four miles, and passed Rocky’s Campground four miles after that, it was 20 miles until the next building (JR’s Aucilla River…

Mornings for the last week have been wet with condensation, but today was the first day when that condensation remained visible in the air. Actually through breakfast everything was clear and sunny (and the bikes stayed dry under the cover of the pavilion!) But then something crazy began happening, first strong gusty winds blowing our…