Author: neil

While Florida has surprised us with its excellent bike accommodations that make it comfortable to ride almost anywhere in the state, we’ve only had glimpses of what most of today’s ride was like: a classic Midwest-style bike-touring day down quiet farm roads. These were mostly roads with no bike facilities, because they don’t need to…

Our inland excursion is complete, and it’s time to head back to the Gulf Coast to continue tracing the coastline of Florida. Our immediate target is the manatees in Crystal River, and conveniently their waters spring right on the WNW line that one might take to return to the coast from Orlando even if they…

Our space heater was still valuable on our last morning at Disney World, with the cool and misty conditions heralding our eighth consecutive day of below-normal temperatures. Since we got even more use out of it than I expected, I wouldn’t have felt that bad adding it to a landfill, but I felt much better…

Day 4 After two long days in the parks, where standing in lines for hours on end is tougher on our backs than riding a bike all day, it was time for a day off. For dinner, we went to the Hoop-De-Doo Revue, an intentionally-cheesy dinner theater at the campground. Because it’s Disney, the performers…

Despite Walt Disney’s interest in innovative transportation and planned communities, the roads through his World in 2025 have been designed solely to move vehicular traffic between the four parks and dozens of resorts as efficiently as possible. So our route to get us into the center of The Most Magical Place on Earth surprisingly required…